The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-10-21
MANNED AND HALT IN FRANCE CARED
 FOR BY COUNTRY
Functional Readoption and Re- education Performed Under American Methods and Appliances.


 and Appliances.
 Saint Maurice, Oct. 21-The pro- blem of caring for the army of maim- ed and disabled soldiers is being
 gra adually worked out. The aim of | the government is to make them self supporting notwfth hsta nding their in hrmaties. To do this the first neces- l sity is functional readoption and pro I fessional re-education or physical training. A million francs ($200,00O) i is beings spent on this work. Here, | not far from Paris, in the National l Oonvaaescent Asylum and Military
 Hospital are quartered at present 835
 men, about 135 of whom are cured
 and are learning new trades or pro- 1 fessions in the various schools of the institutions. Other similar estab- 1 l1shments will be put into operation | at Bordeaux, Bayonne, Bourges, l Montpelier, Rouen, Tours, Toulouse,
 Caen, Limoges, Nency, Pan, Saint
 Etienne, Brest and Oron, (Algeria.) The Saint-Maurice institution, cre- 1 ated by Napoleon TIL and located in
 a large well-kept park, is admirably adapted to this work. It's halls are 1 large and well ventilated and 1 equipped with modern apparatus 1 Victims of paralysis, anky1osis, those 1 whose tendons have been cut out 1 and others suffering from various le- sions may be seen working special
 machines, most of them made in the United States, to exercise stiff joints and bring back life to deadened muscles. Tn many cases after patient i application to the treatment the I member functions norma1ly.s There l is an appliance for almost every con 1 ceivabIe complication resulting from l a wound. Most of the patients are I able to use them without aid after 1 having been shown, then it is simply I a. case of sticking to it. The adJo1n- 1 ing room is filled with the whirr of 1 electric massage instruments man 1 nipu1ated by nurses.
 l On a concrete walk in the garden 1 large footsteps have Nbeen painted. These are a cure for locomotive dis orders, for soldiers who lost control l of their legs through nerve shock or l otherwise and who have to begin over 1 again like a child. An outdoor gym i nasium furnishes more severe forms 1 of exercise for those who need it and can stand it.
 After the functional fcure, the pa tients are treated from the standpoint 1 of professional re-educat1on reflt- ting them for remunerative occupa- 1 tions This phase of the work at Saint Maurice is no less complete l than that provided for the restoration l of suspended physical functions. Sew era1 halls are devoted to particular I Buildings recently constructed the 1 soldiers themselves are making artl- fcia1 limbs such as have heretofore l come largely from the United States pr. Maurice Bourillon, director soI, the institution, says the majority of crip- pies are unable to pay the prices for l imported artificial limbs so they are learning how to compete with the 1 American trade.
 The trade schools are in successful 1 operation and arrangements are be- 1 ing made to take care of the increas- 1 continues. At present there isA great need of men who can repair the 1 American farm machinery, tractors 1 and SC forth used in France and a number of them are being tralneo TOE l this work.
 In the designing room number
 of men who have lost their right arms
 are training themselves with the aid l of various American drawing devices to use their left hand. After these
 men have been sufficiently trained the l government will find, positions where such as have mastered a new calling may earn a decent living All those who have fought for the country will 1 be well cared for, according. to Mon 1 sieur Jules Brisac, in charge of this
 work: none will become g, charge.
 They can choose whatever work they wish. Private societies that are inter ested in aiding the maimed will be l subsi dized but the government will I exercise control generally.
 Y Dr. Bourillon, apart from his gen. l eraI protest onal work, improves the l opportunity to do some moral train I ing. He is an enemy of strong drink and in the large comfortable reading troonFat the Asylum are p1acards con- l spicuously. posted such as "Absinthe ] will make you crazy Alcohol is the 1 perfect type ofepoison of tht nervous l systern,' When man drinks the 1 family is com mpronised-when woman is necessary to find something for l Vie; Eau-de- mort. (Brandy is I death).
 l Experience has shown that the l nainaed at Saint-Maurice learn in I less than half the time the trades or l professions they choose as compared 1 with others who have the normal use of their limbs. Dr. Bourillon at tributes this to their strong will
 power aroused by the obstacles met in their changed condition. The 1 great number of Ynaimed who are in such condition as to earn their living only with difficulty if at all. raises a kocial problem of the greatest i'm portance,,' said pr. Bourillon- EV1- l dently they should be given all places they are able to fill in the government 1 or organizations over which the state ] has control. But it is doubtful if work
 can be found for all who seek it. II 1 drinks the family is lost Eau de
 them as soon as they can begin I work
 i Colonel Edward B. Glasgow, aged I 4O of w orc ester, Mass. a member ol T the Massachusetts Legie. lure, shot and killed himself at the home or hls