DR. DEDMAN: Stated that General Order No. 26 has been a wonderful help. In connection with the matter of discharged he thought that four days would be enough, because a man’s discharge can be anticipated and arrangements made for his vocational training, provided a representative from the Veterans’ Bureau is furnished. He stated that everyone has the same ideals as to the restoration to health of these ex-service men but that this matter cannot function properly and we cannot attain the maximum for these men unless we do work together in harmony and peace in hospitals; that when these representatives come, it should be distinctly understood that they are members of the official family and staff of the hospital; that these representatives should not be medical men as a medical board can determine the means and advisability of training, but that they should be well versed in the subject in order that they may be competent to judge as to what is best for a certain man to take up. Dr. Dedman added that difficulty had been experienced in getting men to leave the hospital. He mentioned the case of a boy who had been admitted to the hospital with active tuberculosis, who was eventually rated as an arrested case and told that he had received the maximum benefit, that this boy did not want to leave the hospital and made a protest to his Congressman. DR. COOK: stated that he was going through his hospital one day and met a big husky and asked him where he worked; that he replied he did not work but was a patient; that this incident set him to thinking and he got his discharge board working with the result that he reduced the number of patients from 910 to 500; that in connection with existing requirements to the effect that no patient would be discharged from a hospital without going through a contact man, he was fortunate in having a man assigned to him from the Veterans’ Bureau and every case of discharge goes through his hands; that under this arrangement he has no difficulty in discharging patients. DR. EVANS: informed the Conference that there was on the Director’s desk a ruling stating that personnel from the Veterans’ Bureau will be under the commanding officers on hospitals.