(b) Has General Order No, 59 caused any marked fluctuation in the patient personnel of any of the hospitals? I notice, for example, that Public Health Service Hospital No. 53, Dwight, Ill., has recently dropped from occupied beds to 65 in number, giving a surplus of 165 unoccupied beds. Houston, Texas, has dropped from occupied beds to 443 beds, giving a surplus of 528 unoccupied beds. At No. 32, Mount Alto, Washington, there is a ward for colored patients which will accommodate 30, in which there are only 6 colored patients at the present time. Are these fluctuations coincidences or are they the effect of the Veterans’ Bureau having assumed the functions under discussion. Of course if we could be sure that these reductions in-patient personnel are going to be permanent it would not make any difference. We could cut down our working personnel at a hospital like Houston, Texas, and with the consent of the Veterans’ Bureau we could close a hospital like Dwight, Ill., but will the pendulum swing in the other direction again, and what advance information can the Veterans’ Bureau give these fluctuations and of their approximate duration? (c) Have you received very many patients who, owing to their condition or to the nature of your facilities, or both, should never have been sent to your hospital? (d) Has General Order No. 59 tended to delay the turnover in those general hospitals having special wards for psychoneurotic and psychotic patients, who are detained for a short time only until they can be otherwise disposed of? (e) Should General Order No. 59 be modified, and if so, in what particulars? Having delivered this third volley of questions, I shall talk a little more. I have no idea what opportunities you gentlemen have had to become familiar with the facilities at hospitals other than your own. I have no idea what information District Managers and District Medical Officers have of hospitals and conditions in Districts other than their own. General Order No. 59 of course attempted to convey some idea of the facilities in all of the hospitals used by the Veterans’ Bureau, but it was impossible to incorporate anything like a comprehensive statement with regard to these facilities. Quite recently, at the request of Dr. Guthrie, and with the assistance of men in both Bureaus, I prepared a questionnaire for all the hospitals, asking what your general conditions and facilities were like. Most of the hospitals have answered this questionnaire, and the information obtained is exceedingly valuable. Practically without exception the answers have been concise, complete and exactly what was asked. Those of you who have not answered please do so as soon as you can. I wish it were possible to print or mimeograph these reports and distribute them. Certainly anyone who is charged with the responsibility of placement and transfer of patients should have access to these reports.