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The New Zealand Medical Service in the Great War 1914-1918

Appendix E

page 548

Appendix E.

War Organisation of Medical Headquarters in New Zealand in 1918

page 549

II. War Pensions in New Zealand. Extract from the Annual Report of the Commissioner of Pensions for year ending 31st March, 1924.

Appendix I—Medical Administration.

The following table sets out the nature of the disabilities for which war pensions are being granted.

In many cases a pensioner is suffering from more than one disability, but in this classification only the dominant disability is considered, so that the total number of these is the same as the total number of individuals in receipt of war pension on the 31st March, 1924.

Wounds Perm. Temp. Total
Upper extremity 1,577 600 2,177
Lower extremity 1,548 858 2,506
Head and neck 440 289 729
Thorax 356 292 648
Abdomen 160 109 269
4,181 2,148 6,329
Amputations—
Upper extremity 430 8 438
Lower extremity 584 17 601
Double 39 39
1,053 25 1,078
Special senses—
Ocular:
Totally blind 21 21
Loss of one eye 337 9 346
Other disabilities of eye 150 33 183
508 42 550
Auditory 261 84 345
Nasal 2 16 18
Respiratory system—
Pulmonary tuberculosis 6 1,462 1,468
Other diseases 23 929 952
29 2,391 2,420
Circulatory system 95 358 453
Nervous system—
Organic disease 27 31 58
Functional disease 30 827 857
57 858 915
Insanity 2 28 30
Gastro-intestinal 43 271 314
Genito-urinary 43 121 164
General diseases 93 848 941page 550
Fractures (not due to wounds)—
Upper extremity 54 28 82
Lower extremity 52 40 92
106 68 174
Diseases of bone 14 18 32
Injuries of joints (not due to wounds) 204 242 410
Spinal disease 9 81 90
Deformities 38 23 61
Disease of skin 3 8 11
Miscellaneous 43 101 144|
6,784 7,731 14,515