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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Credit: 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. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ITALY. Pen si o ns . 1st. The Italian Government grants military pensions de re- traites {a) for length of service, of thirty years to commissioned officers, and of twenty-five years to subalterns and soldiers, (b) for injuries and disease incurred in service. 2d. All those who receive pensions are stricken off the army list, and re-enter civil life. 3d. Those pensioned for length of service receive the mini- muni rate ; but if they have served longer than the required time, the rate rises with the excess of service till it reaches the maximum. 4th. Those pensioned for injuries receive the pension what- ever the time of service; when they have become blind, or lost two limbs, they receive the maximum increased 50 per cent. If the injury is equal to the loss of one limb, they re- ceive the maximum. For any lesser injury, the minimum. 5th. Widows and orphans left by those dying from injuries, receive half the maximum. If the death occur while in receipt of a pension, but not from injuries received in war, the widow, &c., gets oue-quarter of the pension. 6th. The tariff allows— Max. Mm. For a General of Division 8,000 6,000 Colonel 3,600 2,700 Captain 1,900 1,400 Soldier 350 200 francs or livres per annum. 7th. j Total number of militairesretraiteV' 30,229 1863] Total amount of pensions Frs. 15,748,328 Proportion of officers and their pensions not given. 4