Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1922-10-05

placed at 1915, with total experse
for vocational training for the fiscal
year Of $160, sol, 1858. Considered
by months. the outlay of finance for
training steadily increased from So
s24,14S.64 in July, 1921, to $40, no.
1888 in June, 1922. The bureau. has
trainers in more than 1900 educa-
tional institutions.
The total nsaber Of compensation
and death sd disability claims died
during the year reached 191,0lS, Of
which 77.195 were allowed, involving
yearly compensation disbursement
Of $123, 494.261. Monthly disbursements
reached high point with S11 1904. 112
In October, 1921.
Forbes Advocates New PclIciea
Reviewing the hospital situation. a
statement from the bureau says the
number OF men placed in government
and contract hospitals during the year
totaled 113,024. of which 62,S15 cases
were general medical and surgical
cases; 1896 we're tubercular cases,
and 1928 were cases of nervous and
mental disorders.
Director Forbes, who returned re.
Gently from an inspection of hospitals
in the northern part of the country,
announced in this connection that
new policies for disqualification of dis
abled veterans would be taken up
soon with President Harding.
Colonel Forbes declared he would
suggest to the President the advisable
ity Of turning sons of the present hos
pitfalls into training centers for quies-
cent tubercular patients and service
men suffering from mental ailments.
Sites for all new hospitals under the
second Langley bill, he said, were be-
ing selected and work was planned to
begin within 80 days on the ten new
institutions in various parts of the
country. He estimated the program
would cost approximately $14,000,000
During the inst year of the bureau,
the birthday settlement pointed out
control of 30 hospitals had been trans
ferred from the public health serv.
Ice TO the bureau, and with this
change, patients in these hospitals
will be subject to the operation OF
enly one organization, which will mean
closer supervision and improved medi
cal service
Increase in the treatment of vet
Grams by government doctors, instead
of outside agencies, for the year was
| pointed to as resulting In more salts
factory care and greater economy. UI
to the beginning of the last fiscal
year. it was explained, only s pei
cert Of the medical services In the
field were provided By government
agencies and 92 per cent were pro
vided by physicians and hospitals on q
fee or contract basis, whereas today
20 per cent Of these medical services
are provided by the veterans bureau
Work on Insurance Claims.
Insurance claims filed during the
last fiscal year mounted to 1862, the
computed value of which reached SIC.
1876, G22. 80. Disbursements covering
.both life and term insurance aggre
'ga ted S109, 10000.
During the year the bureau con
Quoted a cleanup campaign" through
out the fourteen districts, during
which 1858 contracts with bene
fciaries and claimants were made, re
sulting in the filing of 48,462 claims
as well as the reopening of $4,000 old
claims. More than $4,000 physical ex-
aminations were made, which resulted
in the sending of thousands of dis.
abIed veterans to hospitals for medical
care and treatment to which they were
entitled This campaign was conducted
at a total cost of $4,000.
One of the big accomplishments OF
the year, says the statement, was the
decentralization" of the bureau into
fourteen districts. This first phase
of decentralization" consisted of dele.
eating authority to administrative
representatives in the regional offices
so as to acquaint them with questions
of policy and equip them to act indie
pendent of the central Office at Wash.
ington. The second phase of the de
Capitalization was concerned with the
delegation of similar authority to
representatives located in the sub
district offices for like reasons"