GROSS NEGLECT OF HEROES.
WASHINGTON, Jan. .17— Like the Australian Government, the United States Government is undergoing criticism of: its administration of flic homes and hospitals of ex-service men. A committee from disabled American veterans has presented President Harding with a petition setting forth that mentally-disabled veterans have been the victims of gross neglect, callous indifference, deliberate prolitecring, and inadequate treatment. The committee charged -that the Government itself has not provided any hospital facilities for insane soldiers, but were farming out these among various State asylums, which arc notoriously overcrowded and inadequately equipped to treat and care for them. It is nlloged that various States are realising a profit as a result of this system, and that the Government, wherever it personally undertakes to caro for unbalanced cases, use makeshifts instead of fully-eqtlipped institutions. Many soldiers requiring treatment are unable to go to hospitals because they have dependents.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 15743, 7 February 1922, Page 5
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148GROSS NEGLECT OF HEROES. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 15743, 7 February 1922, Page 5
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