THE CORNELL SELECTEE INDEX

BACKGROUND AND LITERATURE That each person with a neuropsychiatric disorder revealed subsequent to induction costs the government $30,000 to $35,000, that twenty-seven hospitals with a capacity for 33,000 patients are devoted to the care of veterans from the first world war with neuropsychiatric disorders, that approximately a billion dollars has been spent on the care of these patients and that 60 per cent of all ex-members of military services requiring hospitalization are admitted for neuropsychiatric disabilities are facts which have been repeatedly presented in the literature. As the result of the work of neuropsychiatric examination boards in the United States, the American Expeditionary Force of World War I had a far smaller percentage of nervous and mental casualties than did the armies of our allies. Even so, 110.137 neuropsychiatric casualties occurred in the Army from April 1, 1917 to Dec. 31, 1919 at a rate of 26 per thousand. It