The number of admissions to the base hospital at Camp Sherman has on several occasions taxed its bed capacity. This has necessitated the overcrowding of wards and the placing of patients in close contact in aisles and otherwise. The inadvisability of this procedure was clearly and early demonstrated in the frequency of new infections and reinfections. To meet the demands made on the hospital for the care of patients, a survey was instituted to determine the means available for increasing the number of vacant beds without resorting to ward overcrowding. It developed in this survey that the desired end in part might be obtained by the prompt and intensive treatment of the trivial conditions causing large numbers of hospital admissions to the end that the average days in hospital be lessened. This plan contemplated the acquiring of the needed bed space in hospital and, what is of greater significance, making