(a) Personnel.
(b) Equipment.
(c) Expendable material.
(d) Suitable space for work.
(a) It is estimated that it will require 50 additional trade and industrial teachers, 50 additional commercial or academic teachers, and 100 occupational aides, making a total of 200, salaries ranging from $1600 to $2400.
(b) As the new hospitals opened will be receiving men from smaller hospitals, the equipment that has been used in the small hospitals may be transferred to the larger ones. It is not possible to make an accurate estimate as to what additional material may be needed, as we do not know how much of this can be secured from other branches of the Government, but in hospitals numbering less than 200 patients the amount to be expended for equipment would be relatively small. In the new hospitals, however, numbering over 200 patients, where pre-vocational training is desired, a reasonable equipment would have to be furnished.
(c) As to expendable materials for Occupational Therapy the past experience has shown that it will amount to $2.00 per month per man actually at work, and possibly 25 per cent of the entire hospital population will be doing some work of this character.
I would recommend the approval of the plan in operation in the Public Health Hospitals for disposing of salable materials made in Occupational Therapy or trade work, which is that the patient may make two articles, giving one to the Government to be sold, and the other retained by himself. The price for which the articles to be sold should be established by a Board of Appraisal, appointed by the Medical Officer in Charge, or Superintendent, the proceeds to be used as a revolving fund for purchasing supplies for this work, if it is legal—if not, the proceeds to revert to the Treasury of the United States.
PHYSIOTHERAPY
The personnel for this work has been previously authorized to the extent of 100 physiotherapy aides and 10 Medical Officers in Physiotherapy. It will be necessary, of course, to have suitable equipment. This will be recommended by the District Managers and approved by the Medical Division before a requisition is filled.