Report on the pension systems, and invalid hospitals of France, Prussia, Austria, Russia, and Italy : with some suggestions for the best means of disposing of our disabled soldiers / by Stephen H. Perkins.

  • Stephen Higginson Perkins
Date:
1863
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    K R A ■ PRUSS1 1 AUSTRIA. ITALY. RUSSIA. REMARKS, Tfit Nuim/ ,,;.:.. i,//ic/i Length of service, and injuries and i pel meat kind. as France. Injuries precluding the | further military service. fame as France. The detail; as to tin country See detailed laws. Tlit Miiai sioi..! /or the Common Soldier Francs ... «« •■ 586 84 Krentzers '25 !:.:::: S pensions, see detailed tai in-—table*. »<d r;,,,;,„„, One quarter of the max i in am, when the soldier dies from injuries. Nothing to widows of common Nothing to widows ,.i soldiers. One-hall maximum when pensioner pension if from other cause. Unsuccessful attempts hare been made to increase the officers* and widows' pen-ions in France. Soldiersand Subalterns 46,602 57,36« All military pensi ds Officers' Widows 6,«e terns 69.650 large, where so many go into civil ser- 1661 Franca ... Soldiers and Subalterns.. 18,632,265 1861. Tl.alers 2.788,611 Soldiers and Subaltern,, . ;-7( M-j;, 1863. florins. Office]-. Ac ..i 185 ]-i,i. S,>!,b.-r« ami Subalterns. 1,465.000 Florins lu,25o,u35 Germany i Tlicnoh,,, , Sixty year? of age and the receipt of pension, loss of one limb. kinds of injury, blind- Same as in Prussia. All injuries of a permanent kind, and old age. in Germany, onlv a portion of those totally disabled can End ase ii entfiring but may be reclaimed oo leaviog Hospital. Pensions cense. Pensions contii are supported beside. Special provision in the way of pay is made, and invalids pay tbeir own The terms in Austria or* very favor- able to the t'urtly imwi tailed report lor the Italian particulars. >'il,*. Invalid Etlaliiahmenl* and One Hospital in Paris. 299 lovs Two hospitals, 4*0 inmate*, leven invalid companies, Bol members Tin. lui.-pitaU, three Filialien, 2,401 invalids. Two hospital-; 10,679 invalids. Another large 1 in Florence,to relieve the one in Naples. ■••I Coil of Maintenance, exelu- 1861. Pre., 2,313,744 II. 1861. Florins, 389,245. 1861. Frs„ 6,8! Including cost of the Bchi Sunk/ small office* in the Hold. Hall i, ralids are drafted for gar- risen duty. No employ ■■■■ thi II pita] None. Able bodied men drafted into garrisons, dec, Music and Grammar schools. See detailed report* from France and Italy. Other provision fir Invalid* out nf If.js/.it'il None. The seven invalided companies above named, are quart <-i el on t lit.' mlnib- Stunts, in different parts of the king- dom, at government expeoie. The civil Teraongungschein system, Three Filialien. similar to the Prussian invalid companies. None. Details of the Prussian civil employ- ment system gi ven in report from