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accident agricultural Amar American Journal amputation Appendix army artificial limbs Assistenza ai Militari avenue des Champs-Élysées Berlin Blessés de Guerre Board Bolletino della Federazione Bordeaux cent centers of re-education civilian Comitati di Assistenza committee course crip Crippled and Disabled crippled soldiers disabled men disabled soldiers Düsseldorf École employed employers employment bureau established factories Federazione Nazionale France functional re-education Grand Palais hand industry injuries Institute for Crippled instruction invalides Kriegs Kriegsbeschädigte Kriegsbeschädigtenfürsorge labor Leipzig les invalides London Lübecker Lazarett-Zeitung Lyons machine manufacture ment Militari Ciechi Minister Ministry Mutilati Nazionale dei Comitati occupation one-armed one-legged operating organization orthopedic Paris pension permanent placement Port-Villez possible professional re-education professionnelle des blessés prostheses pupils receive Red Cross Institute rééducation professionnelle Rouen Saint-Étienne Saint-Maurice shoemaking soldiers and sailors Storpi tion Tourvielle trade treatment Wages war cripples week workers workshops wounded York Zeitschrift für Krüppelfürsorge
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Page 32 - Fund is under the direction of the Royal College of Physicians of London and the Royal College of Surgeons of England and is governed by representatives of many medical and scientific institutions.
Page 1 - Committee, requiring the new central body to 'make provision for the care of disabled officers and men after they have left the service, including provision for their health, training and employment'.
Page 6 - A person whose (muscular) movements are so far restricted by accident or disease as to affect his capacity for self-support.
Page 1 - At the outset, we desire to express our opinion that the care of the sailors and soldiers, who have been disabled in the war, is an obligation which should fall primarily upon the State; and that this liability cannot be considered as having been extinguished by the award of a pension from public funds. We regard it as the duty of the State to see that the disabled man shall be, as far as possible, restored to health, and that assistance shall be forthcoming to enable him to earn his living in the...
Page 17 - The draft of a royal warrant for the retired pay of officers disabled, and for the pensions of the families and relatives of officers deceased, and for the pensions of nurses disabled, in consequence of the present war.
Page 11 - Civil, Paris, 1915, Ixvii, 129-134. Darwin, Leonard. The disabled sailor and soldier and the future of the race. Eugenics Review, London, 1917, ix, 1-17. Dean, T. Norman. Restoring the injured to industry. American Industries, New York, 1917, xviii, no. 2, 10-12.
Page 1 - When their cure has so far progressed that they will profit most from reeducation, they are dismissed from the orthopedic hospital on breve licenza (short leave) and allowed to visit their homes. After the term of leave, generally a month, has expired, those designated by the center as capable of reeducation must present themselves as part of their military duty at the nearest reeducation school. The men excused from this duty are those hopelessly crippled or those who give proof that they do not...
Page 5 - A statement indicating the number of candidates for employment in each district is sent out weekly to the local committees. This serves as a check on their number of open cases, and incites friendly rivalry between the committees to keep down the number charged against them. Up to June 21, 1917, the total number of men who had been registered by the Department was 9,070. This number included the general type of invalid as well as the men physically disabled. The cases were subject to the following...
Page 6 - Most of the men reside in the school under military discipline, though day pupils are taken if they reside in the town and wish to return to their homes at night. The hours of work, recreation and leave off bounds are all carefully regulated and stated by the school in its report to the Minister of War, as is also the number of meals furnished to the men and the kind of food. The plan of work is thoroughly formal. Almost all the men are required to take an intermediate and sometimes an elementary...
Page 6 - To what extent all the hospitals are supplied with modern orthopedic devices can not be ascertained. There has been some complaint in the papers that the remoter hospitals have very incomplete arrangements and that the great demand for orthopedists leaves some places unsupplied. New short courses for orthopedists have been put in at some of the medical schools and there is an enthusiastic effort to meet the lack; also there is wide publicity on the subject which tends to bring the poorer hospitals...