The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1919-12-26
HELP THE SICK SOLDIER
CAN RECEIVE AID FROM
HOSPITALS
/ Recent Order Was Issued BY
Public Health Service,
Washington \

Any ex-service man who needs
medical or surgical treatment be-
cause of illness or injury contracted
in the army or navy, can hereafter
enter any army hospital, Public
Health service hospital. or local
civilian institutions or sanitorium,
and have all his expenses paid by
tho government. Few soldiers or
sailors seem to be aware Of this
privilege which is theirs for the
asking, and today the war depart
inert Instructed the entire personnel
of the Office of the assistant to the
secretary of war. in charge of soldier
employment and welfare work, to
bring this to the attention of all
such men.
Lieutenant Colonel Mathew C.
Smith, of the general staff, and head
of the bureau, has issued bulletin
for nationwide distribution, which
says:
Any discharged service man who
is in need of medical treatment
and feels that his illness is due to
wounds or other disabilities received
or aggravated while in service,
SHOULD at cnce see the nearest army
hospital or local representative of
the, United States Public Health
service for. an examination. Ad-
dresses may be ascertained from the
postmaster. The American Red Cross
representative and state or NUM-
ciplc health officer also are allie to
advise service men about their cases
and shonld be consulted.
IF discharge or other papers
showing that the disability was
existing at the time of separation
from service are available, they
should be taken along, as they will
re OF help IL riaiziRg a-deAisieH on
the case. However. II those papers
are not available the man should
not hesitate to reply. Such an appIi-
cant will be Immediately placed under
treatment pending the receipt of
the necessary papers.
"If there is no representative of
the health service in the ex- soldiers
home town and no army hospital at
hand. and it is possible for him to
travel, such travel.ng G pens s
hospital expenses and wages lost
while UNDERGOING examination will
be paid by the government. should it
be decided that treatment is ncces-
sary.
On the other hand. il the physical
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possible for him to travel. he viii be
examined and treated at his horne, In
special cases where it is found that
a change of climate will be bene-
ficial patients will be sent to speci-
a]lv designated hospitals"
About Three Hundred Times More
Than Before the War.
Berwick. Eng, December 6.--IBy
The Associated Press. THE cost of
living in Odessa is about $50 tirlcs
more than before the war, says Miss
Russell, sister of the local food con-
troller. who has just returned from
that Russian city. She. lived there
for two and one-h half years.
A pair of boots, she says, cost from
1000 to 5000 rubles--a years salary
land n dress was only to be had at
a similar ruinous figure. In Odessa
the day before she left the English
pound was equivalent to 500 rubles
instead of less than ten as in pre-
war days
"The bolsheviki," she explained,
ARE communists and the principle
of the communists is everything for
themselves and nothing for the rest.
turn. and they treat them with ruth
less cruelty. Life for the educated
The others they say have had their
people is utterly impossible. Those
who have money are fast eating into
their capital; those who have not
are dying of starvation. That also is
an expensive business. for the cost
of coffins has reached n prohjbitiye