SURGEON McKEON: made reference to Colonel Patterson’s paper and the necessity for removing men from hospitals as soon as the need for hospital treatment ceases to exist. He stated that men are retained in hospitals longer than is necessary, due largely to the fact that they want to take up vocational training. He recommended that the Rehabilitation Division make a survey of a patient about three months prior to discharge, so that when the patient is able to be discharged from the hospital, he may enter training at once. COL. FORBES: Read Section 2 regarding vocational training; but added that in the rearrangement of the Veterans’ Bureau now in process there will be a closer liaison between the Rehabilitation Division and the Medical Division, and the Rehabilitation Division will be represented in the hospitals. COL. EVANS: stated that a recommendation is to be presented to Col. Forbes, for his approval or disapproval, to the effect that the educational director in a hospital will be the Bureau’s representative there in regard to rehabilitation work and will furnish data regarding the man as to what he has done and what he can do. GEN. SAWYER: said he understood that this representative was accounted for in the list presented formerly by Col. Evans. COL. EVANS: answered that that was the provision made. COL. FORBES: said that he believed that the rehabilitation proposition is much more of a medical problem than an educational one; that there must be a closer medical observation of the men and not quite so much education; that if the physical disability can be removed first, then the man is better equipped for vocational work; that the man should have the maximum of hospital treatment before he is put into vocational work; that the problem is 90% medical and 10% educational. SURGEON DEDMAN (Greenville): stated that his place had adopted the system of sending a copy of the physical report of the Board of Medical Officers to the social welfare part of the Red Cross, and one copy to the educational department of the Veterans’ Bureau so that the Bureau might be in constant touch with the man’s physical condition. He recommended that there be in the sub-offices experts on T.B., etc., and thereby eliminate the sending of men to hospitals when they have no trace of such disease. He expressed appreciation of the work of the Red Cross in his community. COL. FORBES: added his appreciation of the splendid service rendered by the Red Cross, and stated that that organization had recently made available to the Bureau $175,000 for recreational purposes.