THE RED CROSS INSTITUTE FOR CRIPPLED AND DISABLED MEN

Abstract

<h3>To the Editor:</h3> —The Red Cross Institute for Crippled and Disabled Men is organizing an institution in New York to provide the special instructional opportunities for the physically handicapped that will make the cripple productive, and the special placement facilities that will secure for him the right type of employment. We are anxious to have referred to us by physicians, particularly in the New York district, but in exceptional cases from other sections of the country, men who would profit by such opportunities as the institute may offer. Almost every medical man will be acquainted with some men whose need is industrial rather than therapeutic: men who have reached the stage of medical finality but who will require special training or adaptation to enable them to regain the status of self-support. The cases in which profit can be derived by reeducational work are varied in character. The most obvious are