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.fI A Industrial Hygiene Digest - 40 September, 1952 1036 The Rehabilitation Process in Workmen's Compensation Injuries. S. L. Hanson. i:;u. Med. u Surg. 2j_, 376-376 (Aug. 1952). The authoi stresses rehabiliiaticr. as a pregram with each o( its component parts successfully carried cut, rather than merely a part of compensation procedure, as often understood. This concept should remove a great deal of the controversy that exists in the compensation system. The rehabilitation program can be conducted by private interprise. The work of the two rehabilitation centers, operated by Liberty Mutual'is described. 1037 Workmen's Compensation and Rehabilitation. D. J. Galbraith. Am. J. Pub. Health. 42, 963-966 (Aug. 1952). A study of the compensation laws of the states and of the Canadian provinces shows that occupational disease compensation is so haphazard as to show no pattern. The picture is still worse with regard to rehabilitation. "Workmen's compensation, if it is at all worthy of the name, must include rehabilitation as one of its main.functions, just as it does monetary payments and medical aid. The day when small cash awards to the industrially disabled can be considered as just dealing is surely past; for that was as it was in the beginning, 40 years ago." The question of responsibility for rehabilitation services is not easy to answer. In Ontario a beginning has been made. A hospital has been established for the convalescent care and rehabilitation of the seriously and permanently disabled. Its 500-bed capacity is constantly taxed. Rehabilitation is the proper function of compensation authorities and under this responsibility much manpower can be salvaged for industry. i, i 1 1038 Significant Developments in Special Coverages. Insurance Series No. 95 American Management Association, 330 West 42nd St., New York 36,N. Y. 52 pp. (1952). Price $1.25 to non-members of AMA. 1=. Two papers dealing with employee Insurance are included In ' ; this booklet; one on experience with catastrophe medical coverage, and the other on adequate insurance protection for traveling employees. (American Management Association publishes a number of booklets in this series covering all types of insurance. Information about them can be obtained by writing the above Association.) V 1039 It's Time for Coffee. Doris M. Thompson. Mgmt. Rec. 14, 297-299, 318-322 (Aug. 1952). National Industrial Conference Board. The attitude of many companies toward the custom of a midmorning cup of coffee has changed and the practice is now generally