RE-EDUCATION IN THE FUNCTIONAL DISABILITIES OF ACTIVE WAR SERVICE

¹ Captain, M.R.C.

It would seem that the following conclusions can be drawn from the facts observed:

1. That a Re-education Department is very necessary and useful in the conduct of Reconstruction Centers as we know them in the present war.

2. That the personnel of such a department requires very careful selection, and its direction should be undertaken by a man who is keen for the work, and alive to the subject of what might be called "functional anatomy." That, if possible, he be a civilian practitioner rather than an officer in uniform, his relations with the men being much simpler and conducive to less restraint.

3. It does not seem to the writer that the recovered cases are suitable for return to active front line war service, but should be reclassified for other duties that would assure the man against a return to the actual fire zone. These cases appear to be very "unstable" and relapses may occur from apparently trivial causes.

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