TUBERCULAR SOLDIERS.

Taranaki Daily News, 30 August 1919, Page 3

TUBERCULAR SOLDIERS.

QUESTION OF CONTINUING MILITARY PENSIONS. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, Last Night. The Defence Department has made arrangements with the Pensions Board for tubercular patients on discharge from hospitals or sanatoria to be considered for the continuance of temporary full pensions, which will be supplemented if the earning capacity and pension payable together do not enable a soldier to enjoy his previous standard of comfort. Application for supplementary grant must be made to the local registrar of pensions. The opinion of a specialist medical officer is to be taken, and when temporary pensions come up for revision expert opinion as to the medical condition of the patient will, where practicable, also be obtained. On discharge, the patient will be entitled to receive from the Defence Department an open-air shelter, which will be transported and erected at Government expense under airungeinents made by the Director-General of Medical Services or officer commanding the hospital or sanatorium from which the man has been discharged. If an openair workshop is also considered necessary application is to be made by the officer commanding the hospital concerned, on the man's behalf, to the local Red Cross organisation.