Show SHELL SHOCK HITS YANKEES LIGHTLY few hundreds only are suffering from wars strange malady MANY RESTORED BY PEACE all victims victim will be completely recovered in a year says surgeon generals general office less than 1000 cases to be treated washington fear that the nation will have a big problem on its hands la ili the care of soldiers suffering from shell shock is utterly without foundation dati oll declared col peace bailey of the surgeon geoe generals rals office amplifying the statement before the senate military committee that hundreds of victims of the strange disease actually recovered at the tha signing of 0 the armistice colonel bailey expressed the opinion that so far as present knowledge of the malady indicates cally Y all v victims of shell shock should be completely recovered within a year the great majority in a much shorter time less than thousand cases reports received here are that there are now less than a thousand cases of shell shock to be treated thanks to the improved methods by which the united states army combated the affliction preparations had been rande to take care of 2500 cases sent to tilts this side by march 1 but since hostilities ceased word from france shows there are only cases there requiring treatment in this country there are probably about the same number en route home it is accepted here that the drop in the expected 1 I n number u mb er of sufferers was due directly to the news of germanys germanas Germ anys surrender the only explanation for this is t the ile r removal em 0 V al from the sufferers of apprehension that they would again be subjected to an ordeal that acting on the minds actually twisted their bodies out of shape serious as have been the ravages ravage 5 of shell shock among the troops said colonel bailey described by surgeon general ireland ns as one of the coun arys leading psychiatrists the united states forces have not suffered to the extent those of the other allies have this is due largely to the fact that 93 per cent of the cases developing have been cured in the field hospitals by the prompt treatment provided given special treatment the more seriously afflicted are brought to tills this country and sent to plattsburg Platts burg N Y where there is a special hospital of 1500 beds within a short time after admittance most patients avow they are regaining the their normal condition and after observation indicates that tills this is so they are removed to a casual detachment at the file hospital tor for brief additional observation tion when it is evident they have r recovered they are sent seat to camps near their homes hollies to be mastered out the rapidity with which cases tire are being cleared through plattsburg Platts burg cba aba dinces colonel bailey that there will be few permanently disabled by the disease this Is in marked contrast to to tile the situation in england where there art are shell shock victims on the pension rolls I 1 colonel bailey revealed that contrary to the general belief she shell 11 shock does not necessarily come from heavy proof of this Is found in the met fact that from 10 to 12 per cent of tile the casualties in the chateau till erry fighting were shell shock most of these men ilion having been exposed expose I on onar to machine gun fil |