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Title: Perkins School for the Blind Bound Clippings: World War Blind, 1917
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Perkins School for the Blind, formerly Perkins Institution
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Contributing Library: Samuel P. Hayes Research Library, Perkins School for the Blind
Digitizing Sponsor: Perkins School for the Blind

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e committee of the area inwhich the man is going to live. When he arrives home someone fromhis local committee comes to tell him ofthe arrangements made for his treat-ment, if any, for his re-education, if re-quired, and lor his employment, if neces-sary. All the while he is receiving apension, the amount of which naturallydepends on his disease or injury. Duringthis preparatory period the man is underno anxiety as to the well-being of hisdependents. He is not driven by necessity. con-cludes Sir Alfred, to return prematurelyto a calling in < ivil life before, his treat-ment Is fully completed. When he is fothe hands of the great civil and militaryhospitals ho has the best medical and•urglcal advice which the country cat)provide. If he lives at n distance froman appropriate hospital he can liebrought to HVe in the neighborhood ofone, or proceed there dally from hishome. Th^ Stale rnalntnlns him throughoutall these processes, and a pension is pro-vided on a scale already set forth.
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Group of Crippled Veterans Learning Motor Car Repairing In the treatment of Britains disablednothing has been more remarkable. thanthe overthrow of the old-fashioned, pur-poseless orthopaedic exercises for thecure of muscle weakness, stiff joints andsimilar troubles. This is Sir Alfreds ownstatement. Largely through the teachl.ng of Col. Sir Robert Jones, useful man-ual labor is fast supplanting the old systern. The bench, the workshop, the gym-nasium now provide for the active movements of Joints and of limbs.. Curative-manual is the name that theBritish have given to the new treat-ment. The object of the scheme is,briefly, to speed the- recovery of disabledmen by introducing them to congenial)occupations, which serve to keep their;Blinds occ.Arftftd-.. At thft sam<% tim« thftoccupation^ preveivF VheJTKSh~!rrWf,TSslngtouch with their active ways, a frequenteffect of the enforced idleness of hospitallife. In starting the scheme the first movewas to learn every mans pre-war occu-pa

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