Report of the Military Hospitals Commission, Canada, May, 1917J. de L. Taché, printer, 1917 - 182 pages |
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Accommodation Aid Commission allowances for children APPENDIX appointed arrangement Board of Pension Branch British Columbia building Calgary Canada Canadian Expeditionary Force Central Provincial Committee Civil Service classes Clerk co-operation commercial Convalescent Home course Department of Militia Disabled Soldiers Discharge Depot District Vocational Officer employers employment engineering enlistment Esquimalt Grey Nuns Halifax Honourable husband and allowances Insane institution Kingston large number Manitoba maximum age Medical Officers ment Military Convalescent Hospital Military Hospitals Commission Militia and Defence month less pension Montreal necessary number of individuals number of prospective number of re-education Officer Commanding Ontario Order in Council organization Ottawa patients pay and allowances Pension Commissioners pension of husband pension regulations Privy Council prospective re-education Provincial Commission Provincial Governments Quebec regarding Regina return to Canada returned soldiers returning from Overseas Sanatoria Sanatorium Saskatchewan Saskatoon Savard Park tion Toronto Total number treatment Unit Vancouver Victoria vocational training Winnipeg
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Page 65 - PRESENT: His EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR GENERAL IN COUNCIL. His Excellency the Governor General in Council, on the recommendation of the Minister of...
Page 63 - Certified to be a true copy of a Minute of a Meeting of the Committee of the Privy Council, approved by His Excellency the Governor General on the $th February, 1946.
Page 54 - Canada working through its central committee should assume the responsibility of endeavouring to find employment for discharged soldiers, who, upon their return to Canada, are physically and otherwise fit to assume such employment.
Page 62 - That it be empowered to deal with the question of employment for members of the Canadian expeditionary force on their return to Canada, and to cooperate with provincial governments and others for the purpose of providing employment as may be deemed necessary.
Page 166 - It shall be the duty of the commission and it shall have power and authority : (1) To have and exercise general supervision over the administration of the assessment and...
Page 83 - Payments under these regulations shall be continued for one month after the completion of vocational training, whether the man has secured employment or not. 11. In the preceding clauses, wherever the term ''maximum age" occurs, it means 16 years old in the case of a son and 17 years old in the case of a daughter. 12. The provision of this...
Page 48 - ... employment can readily be obtained in them. Last, but by no means least, the man's own wishes and desires for his future must be consulted. The question, therefore, is an individual one, and every case is investigated separately. The decision as to the occupation for which an opportunity of being trained is to be offered a man, is made in the light of the medical, technical, economic, and personal factors of his case.
Page 62 - That the commission be empowered to select medical and nursing staffs and to appoint such other personnel as may be needed for the management of hospitals and homes; provided that a general schedule of pay and allowances be submitted for approval by the governor in council. 3. That it be empowered to recommend to the governor in council any expenditure which it may consider necessary for the treatment and care of the sick and wounded, including the purchase of supplies and equipment, or for the organization,...
Page 48 - The question as to what new occupations a disabled man might be trained for is first of all a medical one, though it is largely one for a vocational counsellor, a man well versed in a knowledge of the methods of various industries and of the training necessary for those Who desire to pursue them. But further, and this is an important consideration, it is an economic question, touching the law of supply and demand. While there are a number of occupations for which it is not difficult to train men,...
Page 47 - The outdoor work, gardening, poultry keeping, etc., has been most successful and is being introduced in every center where the conditions permit. As in the arts and crafts work, the poultry work and gardening are made as practical as possible, the products being sold and the profits applied to the extension of the work and for the benefit of the men engaged in it. In Winnipeg between $800 and $900 worth of poultry and garden produce was raised by the patients at the local convalescent hospital during...