CAPTAIN BLACKWOOD: stated, in addition, that he considered the matter of dispensaries a very good one. He also recommended that the amount of paper work for medical office be reduced, as it seemed that the work they are trying to do in medical way will be subservient to the clerical work. He stated that he had reference to both Navy and Veterans’ Bureau papers. COL. FORBES: asked for his recommendation in this connection. CAPTAIN BLACKWOOD: replied that he could not make any sweeping statement. COL. FORBES: called upon Colonel Kennedy, U.S.A. COL. HANNER: represented Colonel Kennedy. COL. FORBES: inquired as to the number of patients at Letterman Hospital. COL. HANNER: answered that they have 84. He inquired concerning a few patients sent to them by the proper authorities, where the disability has no connection with the service. COL. FORBES: inquired as to what had been done in such cases. COL. HANNER: replied that the men had been taken in and that some of them had been hospitalized and some not—pending authority from the District Manager to discharge them from the hospital. COL. FORBES: stated that if there is a question of doubt, the man is to be given the benefit of the doubt and his hospitalization continued; that if it believed that the disability is not due to service, the officer is to be guided strictly by Regulation 27, and he should inform the District Manager; that the Sweet Bill provides very liberally for the care and treatment of ex-service men, and that he would see that everyone present received a copy of the Sweet Bill, a copy of the Vocational acts, and the original War Risk Act and its amendments; that he wanted all to read them very carefully. He added that it is the medical advice and decisions that the Bureau has to depend upon regarding the care and treatment of the men. DR. SNELL, (N.H.D.V.S.) asked if a man should be hospitalized if he presented himself to Dwight, Illinois, for example, but his disability was not of service origin. COL. FORBES: said that the man is to be hospitalized, and his case determined later; that is he has a contagious disease the city will take care of him. COL. FORBES: called upon Surgeon Quick (P.H.S.) SURGEON QUICK: stated that he was connected with a Marine Hospital, which did not take T.B. or N.P. cases; that the patients were beneficiaries of the Veterans’ Bureau and were mostly of the surgical type; and that he felt there was very little he could add to what had already been brought to the attention of the gentlemen present. He stated that he believed the large percentage of medical men would agree that rehabilitation was more of a medical matter than an educational one.