The Evolution of National Systems of Vocational Reeducation for Disabled Soldiers and Sailors, Issues 15-26 |
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Page 300 - 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 311 - No. 1. Statement of policies. *Bulletin No. 2. Training Conscripted Men for Service as Radio and Buzzer Operators In the United States Army (International Code). Bulletin No. 3. Emergency Training in Shipbuilding — Evening and Part-Time Classes for Shipyard Workers.
Page 18 - The attitude of the public toward the returned soldier will do much to make or mar the success of work with the war cripples. The man returning disabled from the front deserves the whole-hearted gratitude and respect of the nation, but to spoil and pamper him is an ill-advised way of meeting the obligation. Parents who wish to do the best possible by their children do not manifest affection by spoiling their digestion with an eagerly received surfeit of candy. They rather seek to provide a good home...
Page 83 - 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 279 - 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 245 - Cases where the men have applied for or inquired regarding employment are regarded as active. In seeking positions to meet these demands every possible agency is employed. The Department has conducted a propaganda to secure preference in employment opportunity for returned men. It has communicated with local authorities, patriotic organizations, farmers' unions, and private employers and has found the response, on the whole, extremely favorable. The Government has instructed all the departments that...
Page 17 - ... the current status of the labor market. His opinion should take into account the report and prognosis of the medical officer, and also the past record of the individual. As has been pointed out, the friendship and confidence of the soldier are absolutely essential. Very often they are difficult of attainment and the prospective pupil's reserve is penetrated only in the fourth or fifth visit.
Page 109 - Rachiiici (Institute for Rachitics) to give orthopedic treatment and trade training to war cripples. The work was done in close cooperation with the military authorities. The Institute was constituted a military reserve hospital, its officers being given military rank; men were sent there direct from the field hospitals and given their orthopedic treatment under military discipline. After this, if they desired it and the committee found them suitable, they were transferred to a subsidiary convalescent...
Page 144 - The War Department has a right to dismiss a man from the hospital as soon as his physical treatment is over, without regard to the status of his trade training. This matter has to be arranged by informal cooperation between the civilian school directors and the military hospital authorities. As a rule, the hospitals are willing to keep a man until his trade training is complete, even though they would otherwise dismiss him sooner. It is planned that none of the school courses shall take more than...
Page 20 - ... the superficial indications. The employer is patriotic and anxious to help the crippled soldiers. But when the war shall have been over a few years these motives will be no longer effective. The man taken on in a time of national stress will be just one of the employees, and his retention in service...