Show TO REHABILITATE I FORMER FIGHTERS I I Postwar Tuberculosis Cases CasesI Given Special Attention WASHINGTON Dec 15 15 Dr JohnV John W. W Turner a reserve surgeon in the United States public health servile service land I j and a consultant on tuberculosis has written a short article which appears in the Vocational Summary on the Rehabilitation of the in which he says that the size of the problem confronting the federal board hoard considered numerically can only be estimated The totals ran s from to The estimates are based on statistical statistical statistical statis statis- information he continues gathered principally from the statistics statistics statistics sta sta- published by the surgeon general general gen gen- eral of the army and the bureau of I I Iwar war risk insurance The number of ot cases that ma may have had I their disease incurred increased or aggravated In the service has been estimated by the bureau of ot war risk Insurance as for the year ear 1919 I increasing gradually to the peak of the load which will be reached in 1923 with cases Their estimate estimate estimate esti esti- mate of the number of hospital beds that will be needed reaches its peak in 1923 The number of ot beds is estimated estimated estimated esti esti- mated at The study of discharges on S. S C. C D. D from the army in 1918 re reveals reveals reveals re- re that the percentage of ot pulmonary pulmonary pulmonary pul pul- tuberculosis was per cent nearly 9 per cent If It one were to take the grand total of potential claimants claimants discharged from the service ser and anil rejected by the camp surgeons surgeons and and compute the number of cases as bein being in the same proportion as the number inthe In Inthe Inthe the first group that is a little less than 9 per cent one is confronted with the total of over The surgeon general of the army reports the number of cases as for 1917 for 1918 and apparently absolute number from the I army The number of ot beneficiaries beneficiaries beneficiaries bene bene- of the bureau of war risk insurance e receiving hospital treatment treatment treatment treat ment March 31 1920 was I One can only estimate the number number number num num- ber of cases that may have to be considered as eligible for I training It is believed however If it one from the total number number number num num- ber of expected cases in all aU forms as es estimated mated by the B. B W. W R R. R I. I the expected number of ot hospital beds estimated that this result sult may approximate the number of ot cases that will be eligible for training by the federal board of ot vocational education education education tion outside of sanatoria So estimated esti esti- mated the number of training cases for 1920 will be and for 1921 I 1920 Total number pf expected tuberculosis tuberculosis tuber tuber- cases Number of hospital beds re required required re- re d Total 1921 Total number expected tuberculosis tuberculosis tuberculosis tuber tuber- cases Number of hospital beds re required required required re- re 1 1500 Total Looking at tuberculosis from the broad angle of public policy the federal federal federal fed fed- eral board has projected a comprehensive comprehensive comprehensive compre compre- scheme for the vocational and economic rehabilitation of ot the tuber tuber- culous veterans The board conceives conceives conceives con con- that it is not only its duty but that it has a great opportunity to provide training for the lous veterans of the world war This training under medical su supervIsion supervision supervision su- su Is to begin concurrently with treatment treatment- in the sanatorium and to continue until rehabilitation has been established |