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Title: Perkins School for the Blind Bound Clippings: World War Blind, 1917
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Perkins School for the Blind, formerly Perkins Institution
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Contributing Library: Samuel P. Hayes Research Library, Perkins School for the Blind
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and shattered!by Bhell and gas and wracked by theterrible grind of life in the trenches. Of this problem, which grows.as eachsucceeding battle exacts its toll of seri-ously wounded, much has already beenwritten. Scientists are studying it. Spe-cialists in many lines of endeavor, are,giving a large share of their -time to itExperiments go unceasingly on; andsome are successful. France especiallyhas made long strides in dealing withher maimed men. From England there came the otherday the first issue of a magazine de-voted entirely to the care, re-educationand return to civil life of soldiers andsailors. Its name is. Recalled to Lifeand in a foreword. Lord Charnwood, itseditor, writes: Whenever the war ends, the returnof our. forces to civil life will present aproblem of which the magnitude and dif-ficulty have long been foreseen, butwhich, when it arrives, will be met withjoy and high hopes of future good. Forthe present we are only concerned withthe return of the disabled to the peace-
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nOOtWLQkWn nq vs an ut cupazion ful life of their own country, which theyhave done their part so well to secure forus and for our children. But it behooves us to note that thisin iUself is a subject of growing im-portance, not merely because their num-ber increases week by week and day byday, but because it must become farharder for them to find and keep a placein industrial life when the vast numberof able-bodied men now withdrawn fromit come back. n That is Being Taught to Many An act of Parliament in 1915 establisheda committee which had among its func-tions the making provision for the careof disabled officers and men after theyhave left the service, including provisionfor their health, training and develop-ment. Under this clause the reclaimingof maimed men is now going on in Eng-land with a right good will. The system is simple. According to SirAlfred Keogh of the army medical serv-ice, when a man is declared unfit forfurther military duty he is brought to afirst-grade hospital

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