DR. T. R. PAYNE: thought that the hospital brand had been placed on a great many men in cases where it should not have been; that once you get a man in a hospital he is going to repeat as long as he can. He referred to a class of so-called gas bronchitis patients and stated that it is well known that during the war all a man had to do was to say he had been gassed and receive a wound stripe, and this same man is now coming in to our hospitals; that the office of The Adjutant General of the Army has no record of such men being gassed; that he has no chest pathology. He thought that these men should never have gotten into the hospitals and should have been handled outside more by psychology than by doctors and hoped that the dispensaries are going to keep these men out of hospitals; that there is no doubt in his mind that a great many neurasthenics should never have gotten into general hospitals; that the great trouble is the compensation given those men places a premium upon their hospitalization; that men are in hospital who have been discharged as having received their maximum hospitalization; that these men have been taken out of vocational training; that they would rather go back into hospital and get $80 a month and three meals a day and be entertained several times a week; that more care must be taken by doctors regarding the men they send in to hospitals. GENERAL IRELAND: stated that it has been found that there is no after effect from gases and that Lieut. Col. Gilchrist, M.C., U.S.A., representing the Medical Department of the Army in the office of the Chief, Chemical Warfare Service, has data relative to this subject, which can probably be obtained by writing him. DR. LLOYD: offered the following resolution, which, however, was not adopted: “That it is the sense of this body that the Federal Board of Hospitalization recommend to the Director of the Veterans’ Bureau and to the Surgeon General of the Public Health Service the designation of an officer of each service to receive special suggestions and recommendations from the field, criticisms also of instructions contained in field orders, circular letters and similar communications; these designated officers to constitute a board for the consideration of these recommendations, with the view of recommending to the Director the adoption of such as are believed to be of value.” DR. CHRISTIAN: offered the following amendment to Dr. Lloyd’s resolution: “That these officers be detailed to the Veterans’ Bureau for a limited period, say six months; that they be field officers.” DR. JOHNSON: moved that the resolution of Dr. Lloyd be laid on the table indefinitely, which resolution was adopted. DR. LLOYD: suggested that it would be well to have one man of each service who could be advised as to what is the matter with certain general orders and know that such matters will not be pigeon-holed but will receive action.