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Show CARE PRDViDED FOR " RELEASEDJSOLDiERS Returned Men Will Be Treated in Hospital at Actual Cost. Under arrangement made between the hospital division of tho war department and t ho war risk insurance bureau, discharged dis-charged soldiers in this district who may suffer accident or illness calling for hospital hos-pital care may enter and receive this attention at-tention at the army, hospital at Fort louglas at cost. Already several rtients of fids' class have entered the local hospital and it is known that a mnr.her are merely awaiting completion of deuiils to so.-ure admittance. It is believed that tr.is new ruling that cilsi harmed soldiers may he uthniiteO to urmy hospitals for treatment at ccst. under un-der their war risk insn ranee protection provision, w!ii he an important fuotor in iWainini; ihe army prenera! hospital at fort Dui'ias as a "permanent Institution, even after peaee is sitrned and a:! the overseas pi-ui-mts from tins district have been discharged as cured. This is not the only factor in the matter, mat-ter, as it is believed that the new . plan of reorira n ization of an army of nmre than hail a mill ion men in the I'nited States and the location of two complete divisions of this army in the western department de-partment will he another important factor ir. brim; inp about the retention of the l'-al military hospital as a permanent in-s'itution in-s'itution for years to come. There are only two perioral hospitals in the western department, one beinjr at San Francisco and the ot hor u t Fort l'ougias. With two complete divisions of the now army locat ed in the west, one with headquarters at American Lake and the other at Camp Kearny, there will be In the neighborhood of ihO.'Vo troops in this department for whom hospital accommodations accom-modations must be provided. Sold rs art not dis-'ha: "l invn - the army when sick or Injured until they are cured or it becomes apparent that th ir Condition is hn-urab'.e. But in many cases men after hein discharged are injure i or become sick, and in other cases men apparently ap-parently cured before d iseh.i rza li,no relapses re-lapses after dis-har:-ro. All 5 u c h m en. when they a re c a r ; y ins government insurance on which the payments pay-ments have been made properly, are entitled en-titled to admittance to the army hospital in their district, it is announced, under authority of the war risk insurance bu- I rein issued in each rase, and they wi'l receive treatment while in the hoi-piial at the actual cost of toe dailv ration plus 2.'. cents n day to ioer other actual ex-pnss ex-pnss of attention and treatment. Th dally ratlin averacros aout- tO -ciuits, so that the discharged soldier is able to secure se-cure the best hospital care and treatment r: id or the new plan at a cost of abnu ( S". cents a day. wnich is be paid by the war risk insurance bureau out of his s'j rn n ' e benefits. |