CRIPPLED SOLDIERS' FUTURE.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 126, 29 May 1915, Page 11

CRIPPLED SOLDIERS' FUTURE.

Austrian hospitals are specialising in the training of mutilated convalescent soldiers, teaching them new methods of using their tools; in some cases training them in new trades. Writes a neutral observer : " To meet the requirements of wounded and swollen hands, for example, I saw in the carpenters' room hammers made with handles thi-ee times the ordinary size and planes with handles adapted to hands without fingers. Workrooms and classes for 28 trades are now established in the particular school that I visited, and the products of each school are designed to supply, as much as possible, the demands of the hospitals with which it is connected. Tin trays are made by the tinners, sewing is don© by the tailors, and boots, chairs, and baskets are being made, and cupboards painted. "For men totally incapacitated from following their former occupations, courses are being installed to teach now trades. Numbers of knitting machines for legless men have been sent out through the country, and demonstrations have been made to show how man and wife together can use the machines at home. Typewriting is being taught to several, and h'sts aare being prepared of machines which can be successfully operated by incapacitated men. All soldiers who have lost th© right arm are taught to write with the t left, and on© may see a whole room in any of the schools filled with quiet men whose teacher drops hints here and there."