CANADA’S WAR VICTIMS
75,000 MEN DRAW PENSIONS. k— By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. Ottawa, November 10. Eleven years after the war the problem of treating disabled Canadian soldiers and ameliorating the conditions of their dependents by pensions, is somewhat modified, but it is still a large and expensive enterprise. In the Canadian hospitals to-day, suffering from war injuries or war disease, are 3000 men, including 1100 mental cases, many of whom are incurable. The pension roll contains 75,000 men, of whom 50,000 suffer from disabilities, the remainder being dependents. This year the pension bill is £8,000,000. The total since the war amounts to £73,000,000. The total cost of hospital treatment since the Armistice is £30,000,000. Veterans totally blinded number 158.
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Taranaki Daily News, 12 November 1929, Page 9
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