first class, his reeducation commences at the earliest possible moment. The curriculum is varied and broad. It includes bookkeeping, shorthand, typewriting, secretarial work, accounting, metal working, carpentry and cabinetmaking, electricity, stationary-engine operating, and the like. Only instructors of high skill are employed. The result is that work fully up to expert standards is turned out. The men realize that they are being given an extraordinary opportunity, and they are very anxious to avail themselves of it. The training does not cease when the men are discharged from the hospital. Quarters have been proprovided on the grounds where those not needing further hospital treatment can live comfortably until they finish their courses. They remain in uniform and under military discipline as long as they are in the school. A number of the graduates have passed examinations of the London Chamber of Commerce and the National Union of Teachers. The Imperial Indian Relief Fund, among other functions, has that of extending relief to permanently disabled soldiers and their families. Bureaus have been established at various centers for the employment of disabled men, for placement purposes, and the like. Chambers of commerce and such associations are coöperating in finding civil employment for disabled, discharged and pensioned soldiers. There are military hospitals at Bombay, Cawnpore and Umballa, and Red Cross hospitals at Mussorie and Delhra Dun. The marine hospital at Bombay cases requiring artificial limbs. takes care of all Courtesy Red Cross Institute for Crippled and Disabled Men. HINDUS WITH LEG AMPUTATIONS LEARNING TO OPERATE KNITTING MACHINES, QUEEN MARY'S TECHNICAL Orthopedic and organic treatments are given at the other hospitals. In May, 1917, a technical school for disabled soldiers was established at Bombay, called Queen Mary's School. Funds were raised mainly through efforts of Lady Willingdon, wife of the Governor of Bombay. The institution accommodates 200 men. Disabled soldiers in various parts of the country who want to attend are provided with railway fare, a return ticket and traveling expenses. The school is under joint military and civil administration and finance. The military authorities defray the charges of fitting artificial limbs and teaching their use. The educational side of the work is under civilian auspices, the cost being met in part by the Bombay Women's Branch of the Indian War Relief Fund and in part by private subscriptions. Training courses average six months in length. The selection of a trade to train for is optional; each man takes that which most appeals to him and in which he thinks his chances are best. The men are fed, supplied with clothes and given quarters, and those graduating in a trade requiring tools are usually supplied with a set on leaving. Among the subjects taught are tailoring, hosiery knitting, dyeing, making of artificial flowers, carpentry, elementary engineering, motor-car mechanics, stationary engineering, agriculture, poultry farming, truck gardening, and the like. A placement committee is attached to the institution, constantly endeavoring to find employment for the men. They are used as tailors in regiments and at Army clothing departments and as chauffeurs in the Army mechani cal-transport departments. Others are used as turners, fitters, machinists, engine drivers, ammunition-box makers, and the like, in Government dock yards, ordnance factories and arsenals. Private factories and workshops also absorb numbers of them. It is estimated that the skilled men are able to add from 20 to 100 rupees per month to their pensions as a result of their training and subsequent placement in some line of work. |