While I am on this subject of facilities, let me invite attention to the fact that there are marked differences in the kinds of facilities offered by different hospitals and by the hospitals of the different Services. Let me also invite attention to the fact that we have patients who, if properly distributed, would fit into these different institutions possibly in a much more satisfactory way than at present and at a smaller expense. Particularly I suspect that there are many patients in Public Health Service hospitals that do not need the highly specialized and necessarily expensive care that these hospitals are giving, and I also suspect that there are many vacant beds in our Soldiers’ Homes where these patients can be given all they need at a much less expense than is possible in the highly developed hospitals of the Public Health Service, and possibly those of the Army and Navy as well. Why would not this be a good time to arrange for the prompt transfer of such patients? Europe has found the Convalescent Home to be an economical institution, being much less expensive than the hospital. Why may not our Soldier’s Homes be used for convalescents and those who need relatively little medical care and treatment, but who are still not well enough to be thrown on their own resources? These questions I shall not number. They just crept in. There is one class of beneficiary that none of the Services seems to be prepared to handle satisfactorily, possibly due to the fact that legislation is needed to deal with this class. There may be a solution other than legislation but none of us has thought of it as yet. I refer to the drug addict who is entitled to hospitalization for some Service connected disability. We haven’t any place to put such patients and we do not know what to do with them after we put them there. We do manage to take care of some of them but at great inconvenience, and without being able to treat them for their own best interests. We cannot get them admitted as irresponsibles by the Courts. We have no such thing as involuntary commitment, and if one of them desires to walk out of the hospital, out he walks if he is persistent enough about it, and we cannot stop it. This is a good time to say something about what we might to with these cases.