Regular Establishment--arrested Tuberculosis Contracted While in Service: Hearings Before the Committee on Invalid Pensions, House of Representatives, Seventy-seventh Congress, First Session on H. R. 1038 |
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$50 a month 25 percent 50 percent Administration amended Army arrested tuberculosis bill 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 Male Female Male Percent Percent manifest tuberculosis Marine Corps medical council MILLIGAN minimum MONTGOMERY mortality Mount McGregor Navy Number Percent Number Propor 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-connected Seventy-sixth Congress statement statutory award suffering from arrested thing tuber tubercular tuberculin tuberculous WALTER JOHNSON wartime World War Veterans York City
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Page 3 - 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 3 - ... 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 26 - 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 3 - 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 23 - In other words, they have reached a permanent disability. If you try to grade those as to the amount of disability, this man 25, that one 30, and that man 75, you will not have met the condition as accurately as you will by that law. I am making no brief, no appeal to you for ex-service men, to put it in this broad way. I am only recommending that as fair, and I am trying to make what appeal to you that I can for the ex-service man when he gets the real treatment, and making all the appeal I can...
Page 6 - 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 6 - ... disabled emergency Army officers; and be it further Resolved, That copies of this resolution be sent to the President of the United States, the President of the Senate, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, the chairman of the Committee on Military Affairs of the Senate and the chairman of the Committee on World War Veterans Legislation in the House of Representatives and to each Member of Congress.
Page 18 - RANKIN. Do you mean $50 a month for life, or a stipulated number of years? Doctor DUNHAM. I think you will have to make it for life; as long as that man does not break down and become active again. He has a definite handicap. Mr. RANKIN. Suppose we were to pass a law here giving him this status and pay monthly compensation at the rate agreed upon by the committee or by Congress for five years, then would not that give the medical staff in the Veterans...
Page 20 - Now, if those men were diagnosed as tubercular, and, as a matter of fact, did not have tuberculosis at all, but had something else, possibly, a nervous trouble, possibly suffering from some other shock, or physically run down, or possibly, other different things, such as inebriates Doctor Dunham (interposing). No, sir. Mr. Rankin. At any rate, they were wrongfully diagnosed as tubercular when in fact they had no tuberculosis. How can you say that they are as permanently disabled as those men who...
Page 25 - ... have anything below 10, ought not to have anything below 25, whenever they have had a definite tuberculosis. Mr. BROWNING. Doesn't this rating table of Doctor Cooley show that a number of cases fall below 10? Doctor DUNHAM. That is where we differ. Mr. BROWNING. Does not his table show that ? Doctor DUNHAM. Yes, it is based on that. He bases on the point that it would start below and end up below that in many cases, but I do not think so. Mr. BROWNING. His proposition is that there is no handicap...