The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1920-08-09
PLANS FOR FUND
DISTRIBUTION NEAR.
ING COMPLETION
Arrangements for the Medical Treat
ment Of Disabled Soldiers Are Now
Being Rayidly Made.

Delng hhyluly Maze.
That plans for the disbursement of
S46,OOO,OOO recently appropriated by |
Congress for the medical treatment
and disqualification of disabled ex-
service men, the fund to be administer
ed through the Bureau of War Risk
Insurance, are nearing completion, is
announced by Director R. G. Cholmel-
cyclones.
The item in the Sundry Civil Bill
which carries this appropriation reads
in part as follows:
Medical and Hospital Services: For
medical, surgical, and hospital serv-
ices. medical examinations, funrela ex-
penses, travelling expenses, and sup
plies, for benefciaries of the Bureau of
War Risk Insurance, including court
costs an dother expenses incident to
proceedings heretofore or hereafter
taken for commitment of mentally in
competent persons to hospitals for the
care and treatment of the insane, $46,-
100000 This appropriation shall be
disbursed by the Bureau of War Risk
Insurance and such portion thereof as
may be necessary shall be allotted
from time to time to the Public Health
Service, the Board ofManagers of the
National Homes for Disabled Volun-
teer Soldiers, and the War and Navy
Departments, and transferred to their
credit for disbursement by them for
the purpose set forth in this para
graph. The allotments to the said
Board of Managers shall also include
such sums as may be necessary to al
ter or improve existing facilities in
the several branches under its juris-
diction, so as to provide adequte ac-
cOmmodations for such benefciaries
of the Bureau of War Risk Insurance
as may be committed to its care
AS first step in carrying out the
provisions of this appropriation, which
becam effectiv July /, 1920, an exam
nation was conducted as to the avail
ability of certain National Homes for
Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, which
have been established throughout the
country.
Later, at a conference between Cen
eral Wood, President of the Board of
Managers of the National Homes for
Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, Doctor
Salmon, representing the National Hy-
giene committee of the Rockefeller
Foundation, Doctor Pattison, repre-
senting the National tuberculosis AS
ISOLATION, and R. G. Cholmeley- Jones,
Director of the Bureau of War Risk
Insurance, it was decided to convert
two of the National Homes into sana-
forums for the exclusive treatment OF
= tuberculosis and one of the Homes
into a sanatorium for the exclusive
treatment Of mental cases. Each of the
tuberculosis sanatoriums is being
equipped to care for one thousand hos.
pital patents, and the sanatorium for
the treatment Of mental cases will also
accommodate one thousand cases.
At the present time there are op.
proximately 1895 War Rish patients
in hospitals; 1880 of whom are in U
S. Public Health Service Hospitals ant
'9,645 in hospitals and other institu.
tons not owned or operated by the
. Government. Some nine hundred hos
A pitfalls in the United States are now in
n cluded in the list of those housing Wal
X Risk patients, the number of patients
assigned to each hospital ranging from
# one to several hundred.
VI II the number of patients continues
n to increase at the present rate, by tn,
:, end Of the fiscal year there will be ap
q proxlmately thirty thousand War Risl
patients in hospitals.
t, These patients who have become dis
10 abled by reason of their military o.
> naval service and who are, therefore
3 provided for under the War Risk Act
r are classified In three divisions, a
= surgical and general, as tuberculou
II and as mental cases. The difficultie
o. to be COPIED with in the treatment AM
'e care Of mental cases exceed those L
" be encountered in the care of tubercu
70 lar patients, who in turn must be give
L tn specialized treatment necessary b
combat that disease, and the prope
u, segregation OF patients in these class
a a es, as well as the surgical annd gen
ID eral patients, is to be accomplishe
only In hospitals owned and operate
Or by the Government. It is designed tina
the sanatorium treatment of menta
cases which is being organized
through the administration of the Wa
Risk appropriation, shall become tn
leading institution of Its kind 1
America, and that the two sanatorium
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