Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-04-24 | Page 3 | Care of Tubercular Ex-Service Men Urged

I oo Care of'Tobercolar ex-Service Men Urged INDIANAPOLIS. April 2L State adjutants of tho American Legion in conference in national headquarters, here yesterday adopted a motion urg-SngSecretary urg-SngSecretary Baker to throw open the army general hospitals to tubercular tuber-cular ex-servico men. Colonel W. S. Terribcrry of the United States public health service,. i-iiH- lfl inu iiiuL'ituiiir men was one of the service's great problems, especially In tho southwest where many had gone seeking a beneficial climate. Another big problem, he said, was nervous diseases, whose victims vic-tims numbered about 70.000. The peak of that trouble, he said, would not be reached until about 1931 and that there after many of the patients would require permanent care.