In my account of the 1926 Annual Meeting of the R.MPA (News and Notes, October, p 3), I mentioned that the Report of the Royal (Macmillan) Commission on Lunacy and Mental Disorder was summarized and commented on in our Journal for October of that year; needless to say this too was written by the polypragmatic J. R. Lord. At this time when mental health legislation is again under review, it may be of interest to recall the policy (in today’s jargon the ‘philosophy’) which the Commission said should be followed, as well as some of their detailed recommendations, and see what the Association, as represented by its President, thought of them, and also to see how far the Commission’s proposals were accepted for embodiment in the Mental Treatment Act passed four years later.