TUBERCULAR SOLDIERS.
A. PENSION DIFFICULTY, In many ways the tubercular cases among the returned soldiers are proving most difficult to deal with from the point of view of the administration. It has happened quite often that men have taken their discharge from the forces apparently lit and well, and have come hack to the pension authorities som« considerable time afterwards suffering from consumption. The Pensions Board is charged by Statute to give pensions only in case the disability or illness is due to war service, and it is not. possible for the board ever to say that tuberculosis in such cases is due to .war nervice. Consequently the board has held that it may not award pensions in such eases. 1 Obviously something must be done for Flie men," for there is at least a strong presumption that their <var service predisposed them to tubercular infection, and the Defence Minister and the Department is considering how best it can give help to such men.
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Taranaki Daily News, 12 July 1919, Page 5
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164TUBERCULAR SOLDIERS. Taranaki Daily News, 12 July 1919, Page 5
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