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Show Army Vocational School Opened for BlindcdFiK'itors Returning blinded soldiers, sailors and marines are being received now for vocational instruction and rehabilitation reha-bilitation at Hospital Training School. General Hospital No. 7, the former home of Mrs. T. Harrison Garrett, at Baltimore. Md. The hospital hos-pital is outfitted to accommodate 250 men and has large recreation fields and an extensive acreage In gardens. Col. James Bordley, of the Surgeon General's office in charge of the reeducation re-education of the blind, has announced an-nounced the appointment of O. H. Burritt. of the Pennsylvania Institute Insti-tute for the Instruction of the Blind, as the educational director of this Army hospital training school, with Miss Jenny A. Turner, formerly designer de-signer for the Massachusetts Commission Com-mission for the BUnd. as a reconstruction recon-struction aide. The blfnded soldiers from overseas over-seas will be discharged from the hos pital when they have been taught a practical self-supporting trade, have been put in good physical condition, and taught , to read standard printing print-ing in raised type. The men will be sent to their own home communities and placed in the trades for which, they have been trained. Red Cross workers will watch after their welfare. wel-fare. - A national survey is now being made of industries open to blinded soldiers. Instructions will be made to conform With preparations for these industries. a |