Conference of Officers in Charge of Government Hospitals Serving Veterans of the World War
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Conference of Officers in Charge of Government Hospitals Serving Veterans of the World War
Medicine, Military; Military hospitals; World War, 1914-1918 -- Veterans -- Medical care -- United States
It may not be out of order to mention at this time that the U.S.
Veterans’ Bureau through its Foreign Relations Section, Medical
Division, has cared for over 9,000 Canadian ex-service men. When I say
Canadian ex-service men, please know that these are not in reality
Canadians, but that 95% of the number are American boys, who, through
their valor and enthusiasm, rushed into the breach in the early stages
of the conflict, having crossed the Canadian border in 1914, 1915, 1916
and 1917. Their Services having been rendered under the English flag in
Canadian organizations, these boys are properly beneficiaries of the
Canadian Government, and are being cared for by that Government through
the U.S. Veterans’ Bureau, Foreign Relations Section, Medical Division,
by cooperation with the Department of Soldiers’ Civil Re-Establishment,
which is an organization of the Canadian Government, similar to the U.
S. Veterans’ Bureau. The personnel of the Department of Soldiers’ Civil
Re-Establishment is something over 6,000, divided into 10 medical units,
or districts. The Foreign Relations Section, Medical Division, of the
Bureau is constantly in receipt of requests for service from allied
ex-service men with whose government this Bureau has no reciprocal
agreement. These cases are promptly referred to the representative of
that government located in Washington with a view of giving service if
the Government under whose flag the man served will authorize the
service.
REPORTS TO BE MADE UPON CANADIAN FORMS 346,399 and 76.:
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