Motion: RESOLVED, that in considering the question of line of duty, it should be understood that an officer of the Army or Navy, or an enlisted man of the Army or Navy, who has been accepted on his first physical examination after arrival at a military station as fit for service shall be considered to have contracted in line of duty any subsequent determined physical disability, unless such disability shall be shown to be the result of the patient’s own carelessness, misconduct, or vicious habits at any time, or to have been contracted while absent from duty without permission, or unless the history of the case shows unmistakably that the disability existed prior to entrance into the service. DR. G. H. YOUNG: stated that it has frequently been a shock to his sensibilities to see the manner in which compensation has been awarded to certain ex-service men who are not in any sense deserving; that assuming John Doe had a disability when he came into the service, it is now going on four years since his discharge and if such disability was exaggerated in service he should be compensated just as if he had been wounded in action; that the question comes up as to how it can be determined as to whether the exaggeration of his disability arose say during six weeks, six months or eighteen months of his military service or in the period of nearly four years which has since elapsed? That he is of opinion that this applies especially to the in-patienthiatric cases. DR. COBB: suggested that general discussion of the other subjects be taken up and that this very important matter be brought up later. DR. BREW: referred to the case of a man in hospital with a fracture of the thumb, which was operated upon with the result that it functioned properly and the man was not handicapped in the least. After the operation, which resulted in his total rehabilitation the man was awarded vocational training and drew $80 a month. He referred to the case of another man who had been in every hospital he could reach, obtaining transportation from the Red Cross when he could not otherwise obtain it; this man was inducted into service at Jefferson Barracks and had a military service of 28 days, of which 28 days he was in hospital 14 days, and his disability was amoebic dysentery, which he could not have incurred at Jefferson Barracks; this man was in hospital for 18 months and has been drawing $130 a month for training, which he has been taking for two years. Dr. Brew also referred to the case of a negro, who had syphilis before he went into the service; that he is as well as the average man of his type and is receiving a compensation of $110 a month; that this man has benefited by his military service because he has had a line of treatment that he would not have received in civil life.