T.B. SOLDIERS
LATEST DEVELOPMENT DIFFICULT TO GET PENSIONS EFFECTS OF GASSING Per Press Association. DUNEDIN, April 17. “A regrettable feature of the effects of war service is the increasing number of cases of breakdown by returned men during the past twelve months,” says the annual report of the Dunedin Returned Soldiers’ Association. “Especially is this so with men who have experienced the effects of gassing, and who only now are showing definite symptoms of T.B. trouble. Eight such cases have come under notice during the last month. Negotiation with the Pensions Department to prove attributability in these cases is a lengthy business, especially in tbe case of men who have not reoeived medical treatment since their return to New Zealand. As time passes it is becoming increasingly evident that as youth leaves them many will show the effects of stress of war service. Where men have received medical treatment or can produce reasonable evidence of general unfitness since return, the Pensions Board has endeavoured to deal justly, but the fact remains that unless the soldier places his case in the hands of his association his chances of obtaining recognition will not be so favourable.”
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New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12424, 19 April 1926, Page 7
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