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$50 a month 25 percent 50 percent Administration amended Army arrested tuberculosis bill BROWNING Bureau hospitals CHAIRMAN Claude E Coast Guard committee compensation Cooley culosis death certificates diagnosis disability disease DUNHAM DUNN enacted England and Wales enlisted entitled fact fatality rates Government hospitals graduated rating table HINES horsepower identified from death include those identified increase Jersey JOHN LESINSKI KYLE LESINSKI line of duty LUCE lung manifest tuberculosis Marine Corps medical council MILLIGAN minimum MONTGOMERY mortality Mount McGregor Navy Number of deaths Number Percent patients peacetime veterans pension Percent Percent Percent period permanent handicap permanent rating PETERSON presumption private sanatorium provision pulmonary tuberculosis RANKIN ratio of deaths receive registration Regular Establishment Regular Veterans sanatoria service connection Seventy-sixth Congress statement statutory award suffering from arrested thing tion tuber tubercular tuberculin tuberculous WALTER JOHNSON wartime World War Veterans York City
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Page 2 - A schedule of ratings of reductions in earning capacity from specific injuries or combinations of injuries of a permanent nature shall be adopted and applied by the bureau.
Page 2 - ... reduction in the rate of compensation for individual success in overcoming the handicap of a permanent injury. The bureau shall from time to time readjust this schedule of ratings in accordance with actual experience.
Page 25 - Dunham likewise represented the bureau before this committee. I am exceedingly anxious to place before the committee all of the facts, whether the facts are for or against this provision because I believe that the principle underlying the enactment of a provision of this kind...
Page 2 - Administrator shall adopt and apply a schedule of ratings of reductions in earning capacity from specific injuries or combination of injuries. The ratings shall be based, as far as practicable, upon the average impairments of earning capacity resulting from such injuries in civil occupations. The schedule shall be constructed so as to provide ten grades of disability and no more, upon which payments of compensation shall be based, namely, 10 per centum, 20 per centum. 30 per centum, 40...
Page 16 - ... laboratories at Oteen. I was in the tuberculosis division of the Army. I am very glad to have been one of the men who during the war helped to make Oteen what we thought was the best tb hospital in the country. The Chairman. You have specialized on tuberculosis practically your entire medical life ? Doctor Dunham. I have been studying the subject very carefully about 27 years. The Chairman. On page 19, line 5, of HR 4474, you will find a proposed amendment to the existing law, providing for permanent...
Page 18 - ... I hope that some way may be devised so that the persons would receive this compensation for a limited number of years or at least might not be put on such a status that they can not be removed and would continue to draw compensation when they were under no handicap at all. Doctor DUNHAM. There has been so many things brought up that I am anxious to get back at this thing as fast as I can. The last speaker brought up something that has been referred to in previous testimony before you that all...
Page 3 - States which includes all members of the Army, the Navy, the Marine Corps, and the Coast Guard...
Page 5 - DUNN. I have been very largely and almost entirely interested in the care of tuberculosis for about 30 years. For a number of years I was a member of the executive committee of the National Tuberculosis Association. The CHAIRMAN. State your other connection. Do not be modest for the moment; I want to know your connection with these different organizations and your experience. Dr. DUNN. I am at present a member of the advisory council of the United States Veterans' Bureau, serving particularly in...
Page 18 - ... benefit of the Government and the man and calling your attention to it. You are talking about injustices that might be done the Government. I want you to see the injustice of the Government doing something to our men. I want you to see that this classification this arrangement is working hardship in many places. Getting these men on a more definite status will more than pay for it. It will be getting rid of a lot of examinations and interfering with the man's work, having him come back all the...
Page 19 - ... can you say that they are as permanently disabled as those men who really have had tuberculosis? Doctor DUNHAM. That is the trouble of trying to talk medicine to those who have not studied the subject. Mr. RANKIN. It is not strictly medicine you are talking, but it seems to me. that is logic. Doctor DUNHAM. This is the biggest kind of medicine. Let me say to you the kind of man carrying a diagnosis, who has not got it is the man suffering from nontubercular chronic lung lesions, who has cough,...