[ Printed pamphlet on First World War military disability. ] Disabled Sailors and Soldiers. How they are being Re-built at the Nation's Cost.

16pp., 16mo. Stapled pamphlet. Aged and worn, with rusted staple. Inside the front cover are quotations from Hodge and his predecessor as Minister of Pensions G. N. Barnes. Initial note: 'The following pages contain a general and necessarily brief description of the system followed by the Pensions Ministry. They do not and must not be taken to supercede the detailed Official Instructions issued by the Ministry.' The fourteen pages of text (pp.3-14) is divided into three sections: 'Rebuilding Men' ('Permanent Pension', 'Incurable Cases', 'Advantages of being medically treated and specially trained', 'Men's Pensions while being cured', 'Allowances for Wife and children', 'Aftercare: Training', 'Men's Pensions during Training', 'Bonus at end of Training'), 'Methods of Cure' ('Treatment at Home', 'Treatment in Institutions', 'Military and Red Cross Hospitals', 'Special Hospitals for Limbless Men', 'Deafened Men', 'Men whose muscles are contracted or without power', 'Men suffering from Nervous diseases', 'Men injured in the jaws and teeth: Face injuries', 'Men who become Insane: “Service Patients.”', 'Men suffering from Tuberculosis (Consumption)', 'Paralysed Men') and 'Methods of Training Men for Civil Life' ('Disabled Soldiers and Sailors', 'Curative Training', 'Blinded Men', 'Technical Institutes and Agricultural Colleges', 'Employment after Training', 'Trade Advisory Committees', 'Local Wages Board', 'Neglected Opportunities', 'Some of the Trades'). The final page carries fifteen points in two columns headed 'DISABLED SAILORS AND SOLDIERS. | WHAT EVERY MAN SHOULD KNOW.' Final point, along the bottom of the page: 'THAT HE MUST TELL HIS LOCAL COMMITTEE WHAT HE WANTS.' The only copy on OCLC WorldCat and COPAC at the London School of Economics. The Imperial War Museum has a copy of a pamphlet of the same title which it dates to 1927. This item certainly dates from 1917, and Hodge is named in it as Minister of Pensions, a post he held between August 1917 and January 1919.