Wound Pensions

to arrive at a satisfactory conclusion, as to whether damage, structural or functional, not impairing locomotion, but seriously affecting comfort and capacity could be conscientiously pronounced to be " equivalent, or nearly equivalent, etc." The foundation of the phrase was altogether faulty. It included one effect of ?"jury and left every other effect out. Hardship and injustice were no doubt frequently and involuntarily imposed and committed, and too much was left to depend on the imagination and good nature of the board. Recently a more rational procedure has been prescribed by Royal Warrant. This is the outcome of the deliberation committee which sat at the