4. The reception of all new cases in a special department or in special wards where they may receive careful individual study and where those with recoverable psychoses may receive continuous individual treatment. 5. Classification of all patients with reference to their special needs and their clinical condition, such classification being flexible enough to permit frequent changes. 6. A system of clinical records which permits study and review of the history of cases even after they have been discharged. 7. When possible, the maintenance of a school of nurses under the direction of a supervisor of nurses, who should have, not only the training in general nursing, but special training in nursing patients with mental diseases. 8. The employment of female nurses in all reception and infirmary wards. 9. Liberal use of parole for quiet, chronic patients who can live in farmhouses. 10. Special provision for the tuberculous. If, after written notice has been given, any institution furnishing medical care and treatment to patients of the United States Veterans’ Bureau fails or refuses to make reasonable effort to meet the foregoing requirements, such institution will be deemed to be rendering unsatisfactory service, and if under contract with the United States Veterans’ Bureau, such contract may be cancelled, and the Director will refuse to make contracts when the care and treatment offered do not substantially meet the requirements specified herein. [Illustration: LEON FRASER Acting Director, U. S. Veterans’ Bureau. ] SENIOR SURGEON B. J. LLOYD, (U.S.P.H.S.,(R)): presented the second paper, entitled “Admissions to, Transfers and Discharges from Hospitals of Beneficiaries of the U. S. Veterans’ Bureau,” which is given below: “I do not often speak in public. Occasionally I attempt to speak extemporaneously, but today I shall claim your indulgence and confine my remarks strictly to what is written in this manuscript, for the reason that if taken in a disconnected sense some of the things I shall say might sound sensational, whereas if taken in a connected sense and in the way I shall say them, I think you will agree with me that there is absolutely nothing sensational in my remarks. Attendance at this conference is indeed both a privilege and an opportunity. To be asked to address this gathering is a distinction worthy of the best that can be said on the topic assigned. I take it that you are already familiar with the rights and benefits to which the disabled ex-service man is entitled; that you are familiar with the usual routine of paper work and other procedures in admitting, transferring and discharging, and I shall therefore omit some of the more or less definitely settled, fixed policies in this discussion.