WAR DISABILITIES.
ASSISTING THE SOLDIER. "GREATER JUSTICE" URGED. [by TELEGHA —OWN cobhesponwent.] • CHRISTCHRUCH Friday. "The time has arrived when the association should take some very strong action to secure greater justice for the men who are now suffering for their patriotism," states a paragraph in the annual report of the Christchurch Returned Soldiers' Association. "It is well known that a large number of men were so anxious to get out of uniform that they did not report the disabilities from which they were suffering when discharged from the army. It is well known also that in a number of cases the medical records are incomplete. Scores of men were gassed at the front and no medical record was made of the fact, and if these men subsequently develop tuberculosis, under the present policy of the department they are declined treatment. The association takes up the position that any man who breaks down as a result of his war services, no matter how many years after his discharge, and no matter how many times he has broken down, should receive treatment and a pension at the hands of the department."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18374, 14 April 1923, Page 9
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