RT Journal
T1 SUrvey of cripples in cleveland
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1919
FD January 18
VO 72
IS 3
SP 196
OP 197
DO 10.1001/jama.1919.02610030042020
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1919.02610030042020
AB One of the good results of the war has been a stimulation of interest in the physically handicapped, in cripples of whatever degree of incapacity. Systematic efforts are being made to devise apparatus, occupations and methods of training that will enable the cripple to remain or become self-supporting. One evidence of this interest is the report on the education and occupations of cripples based on a survey of cripples in Cleveland. It is compiled by the Welfare Federation of Cleveland and published by the Red Cross Institute for Crippled and Disabled Men of New York City. In spite of our boasted progress, public sentiment in most of our cities has become hardened to the spectacle of the lame beggar or the crippled shoestring merchant or lead-pencil vender. A survey, establishing the exact amount of dependency due to this cause, is a valuable contribution to our knowledge in a field in