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Show 0 Legion (Cop .ur Thla Department supplied by in American Lev ton Newn Service.) WILL PAY VICTIMS OF TUBERCULOSIS Compensation at the rate of $50 a month now Is available to World war veterans with cases of tuberculosis of service connection classified as "arrested." "ar-rested." Regulations putting into effect ef-fect the legislation providing for this compensation were issued recently by Frank T. Hines, director of the L'nlted --" States Veterans' bureau. Utmost care was used in preparing the regulations regu-lations and it Is understood that as finally approved they, meet the demands de-mands of representatives of the American Legion and other service organizations who were called upon for their opinion. Awards of the compensation will be made after examination by boards In regional offices and sub-offices of the veterans' bureau, the regulations fet out. Payments are due from July 2, 1926, the date of the passage of the law, or from the date the tuberculosis reaches arrest, whichever be the later date. Payments will not be retroactive retroac-tive prior to July 2. Where the records In an Individual' case show a characteristic clinical course of formerly active tuberculosis now arrested, a rating assigning the award of $50 a month will be made upon evidence In the file without calling call-ing the veteran In for re-examination. In all other types of arrested cases the board will make re-examinations, and when it cannot be settled whether "arrest" Is present or when the board falls to determine the actual existence of previous true tuberculosis, the veteran vet-eran will be referred to a suitably equipped hospital to clear up these matters. It Is probable that no attempt at a general review of cases whicb. might be affected by this regulation will be made by the veterans' bureau, according accord-ing to Watson B. Miller, chairman of the national rehabilitation committee of the American Legion. It Is therefore there-fore desirable, he states, that veterans affected take the initiative by requesting request-ing the bureau to consider their cases under the terms of the order. |