Bisbee daily review., 1915-11-19
FRENCH EVOLVE AN EFFICIENT SERVICE
 FOR WAR INVALIDS
Saint Maurice Institution, Great
 ed By Napoleon, Third, ESpe- Cialy Admirable; Maimed Rel Ceive Special Training.

SAINT-MAURICE France, Nov IS. 2The problem of caring for the army of maimed and disabled soldiers is being gradually worked out. The aim of the government is to make them selfsupporting notwithstanding their infrmities. To do this the first nee essity is functional readoption and pro tessional re-educatiOn or physical training A million fraucs CS2OO. .O00) is being spent on tsis work Here not far from Paris in the National Convalescent Asylum and Military Hospital are qua1ered at present S58 men. about 135 of whom are sured and are learning new trades or professions in the various schools Of the institu- tiCns Other similar establishments will be put into operation at Bordeaux Bayonue Bourges. Montpelier. Bouen Tours. Toulouse. Caen. Lmaees. Nan cy, Pan, SaintEtienne Brest and Or an tAlgeria)
 The saintMaurice institution. creat- ed by Napoleon IT, and located in a Iaree well-kept park is admirably a. dapted to this work. Its halls arc large and well ventilated and equipped with modern apparatus Victims of paralysis ankylosis. those whose ten dons have been cut out and others suf- iering from various lesions may be seen working special machines most of them made in the United States. 10 exercise stiff joints and bring back life Co deadened muscles In many cases after the patient application to the treatment the member functions normally There is an appliance for almost every conceivable complication resulting from a wound Most of the patients are able to use them without aid after having been shown. then it is simply a case of sticking Co it. The adjoining room is filled with the whirr cf electric massage instruments man. ipulated by nurses
 On a concrete walk in the garden large footsteps have been painted [ These are a cure for locomotion dis ! orders, for soldiers who lost control of their legs through nerve shock ol otherwise and who have 10 begin owe, again like a child An outdoor gym nasium furnishes more severe form of exercise for those who need it anC can stand it.
 After the functional cure, the pa uents are treated from the standpoint of professional re-education" redttinf them for rpmunerative occupations This phase of the work at Saint-Mau rice is no less complete than that pro vided for Che restoration of suspended physical functions Several halls arc devoted to particular trades and pro fessions and in six buildings recent! constructed the soldiers themselve. are making artificial limbs such have heretofore come largely from th, United States Dr. Maurice Bourillon director of the institution, says tho majority or cripples are unable tC pay the prices for imported arti6cia limbs SO they are learning how to compete with the American trade
 The trade schools are in successful operation and arrangements are beinl made Go take care Of the increased numbers of arrivals as the war con tinues. Al present there is great need for men who can repair the American farm machinery tractors and SO fouf used in France and a number of then ! are being trained for this work
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