...first question is the effect that the amended form 10-P-10 and addendum, Circular No. 11, 1953 — ■ designed to protect applicants for hospitalization...and veterans, generally, from charges of "chiseling" may have had on the admission of veterans seeking hospitalization for non-service-connected disabilities....

...1953 PURPOSE AND USE OF THE ADDENDUM TO VA FORM 10-P-10 1 . The attached addendum to VA Form 10-P-10 is designed to protect applicants for hospitalization,...Use of this addendum should cause each applicant for hospitalization to focus his attention on his financial status, and thereby give him a clearer understanding...

...1953 purpose and use of the addendum to va form io-p-10 1. The attached addendum to VA Form IO-P-10 is designed to protect applicants for hospitalization,...Use of this addendum should cause each applicant for hospitalization to focus his attention on his financial status, and thereby give him a clearer understanding...

...in receipt of a Veterans' Administration pension would no longer be required to sign, under oath, a statement of inability to defray the necessary expenses of hospital or domiciliary care in order to gain admission to a Veterans' Administration hospital for a non-service-connected disability....

...According to Circular No. 11, issued by then Administrator HV Higley on November 4, 1953, the addendum was designed to protect applicants for hospitalization,...necessary expenses of hospital or domiciliary care. From what we are able to ascertain, attention was given to the new procedure, in part, the following:...