The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1916-01-06
EDUCATING CRIPPLES
TO CARE FOR SELVES
french Institutes First Make
Them Well, Then Teach
Them Occupations.

Saint Maurice, France (by mafl).-
The problem of caring for the army
OF manned n disabled soldiers is pc
ing gradually worked out. The aim OF
the government is to make them self
supporting, Notwithstanding their IN
irmities. To do this the first necessity
is functional readoption and profes-
sional r~eeducation or physical training.
A million franc ($200,000) Is being
spent on the work. Here, not a from
Paris, in the national convalescent asy-
lum and military hospital are quar-
tered at present 835 men, about 1876 OF
whom are cured and are learning new
trades or professions in the various
schools of the institutions. Other sim
liar establishments will be put into OPP
GRAFTON at Bordeaux, Bayonne, Bourges,
Caen, Limorges, Nancy, Pan, Saint
Etienne, Brest and Oran (Algeria.)
The Saint-Maurice institution, ere
ated by Napoleon III, n located In a
large well kept park. is admirably
adapted to this work. Its halls are
large and we'll ventilated and equipped
with modern apparatus. Victims OF
paralysis, ankylosis, those whose ten
dons have been cut out and others suf-
fering from various LESSONS 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. In many cases,
after patient application to the treat
ment the member functions normally.
There is am appliance for almost every
conceivable complication resulting
from a wound. Most of the patients are
able to use them without aid after hay-
ing been shown, then it is simply a
case Of sticking to it. The adjoining
room is filled with the whirr of cleo
trio massage instruments manipulated
by nurses.
On a concrete walk in the garden
large footsteps have been painted.
These are a cure for locomotion disor-
ders, for soldiers who lost control Of
their legs through nerve shock or 9TH
erwise, and who have to begin over
again like a child. An outdoor gym
nasium furnishes more sever forms Of
exercise for those who need it and can
stand it. 4
After the functional cure the pa
TENTS are treated from the standpoint
Of professional r~e-education" refitting
them for remuneratiye occupations.
This phase of the work at Saint Maui
rice is no less complete thar that pro-
| vfded for the restoration Of suspended
physical functions. Several halls are
devoted to particular trades and pro-
fessipns and in six buildings recently
constructed the soldiers themselves
are making artificial limbs such as
have heretofore come largely from the
| United States DR.. Maurice Bourillon,
! director Of the institution, says the
majority OF cripples are unable to pay
the prices for imported artificial limbs
SO they are learning how to compete
with h American trade.
The trade schools are in successful
operation and arrangements are being
made to take car Of the increased
numbers of arrivals as the war con-
tinues. At present there is great need
Of men who can repair the American
farm machinery, tractors, ETC., used in
France n a number Of them are be-
ing trained for this work.
In the designing room a number OF
men who have lost their right arms
are training themselves with the aid
Of various American drawing devices
have been sufficiently trained the gov
eminent 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 be
well cared for, according to Monsieur
none will become a charge. They car
choose whatever work they wish. Pri-
vate societies that are Interested in
aiding the MANNED will be subsidized
but the government will exercise con-
troll generally.
DR.. Bourillon. apart from his genera,
professional work, improves the OPP
l~portunity to do some moral training.
He is an enemy of strong drink and In
the large comfortable reading room al
the asylum are placards conspicuously
posted such as "Absinthe will make you
crazy" "Alcohol is the perfect type d
poison of the rvo system" "When
man drinks the family is compromised
1-when woman drinks the family is
lost" "Eau-de-Vie; ~Eau-de-mort.'