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 2072 MULTILATERAL CONVENTION-WAR PRISONERS. JULY 27,1929. Annex-Continued. Seront exclus de l'hospitalisa- tion: 10 tous les cas d'affections mentales d1iment constatees; 20 toutes les affections ner- veuses organiques ou fonction- 'nelles reputees incurables; (Ces deux categories appartiennent a celles donnant droit au rapatrie- men t direct.) 30 l'alcoolisme chronique grave; 4° toutes les affections con- tagieuses dans la periode 011 elles sont transmissibles (maladies in- fectieuses aigues, syphilis pri- mme et secondaire, trach6me, lepre, etc.). I11.- 0bservations generales. Les conditions fixees ci-dessus doivent, d'une fa90n generale, ~tre interpretees et appliquees dans un esprit aussi large que ,tlossible. Cette largeur d'interpretation doit etre appliquee particuliere- ment aux etats nevropathiques ou ps,chopathiques causes ou deter- mmes par les evenements de la guerre ou de la captivite meme (psychasthenie des prisonniers de guerre), ainsi qu'aux cas de tuber- culose Atous les degres. n va de soi que les medecins de camp et les commissions memcales mixtes peuvent se trouver en presence d'une foule de cas non mentionnes ~:;m les exemples donnessousc. reII,oudecasne s'adaptant pas a cas exemples. Les exemples mentionnes ci-dessus ne sont donnes que comme exem- pIes typiques; une liste analogue d'exemples d'alterations chirurgi- cales n'a pas ete etablie parce que, abstraction faite des cas incon- testables par leur nature meme (amputations), il est difficile de dresser une liste de types parti- culiers; l'experience a demontre !Iu'un expose de ces cas particu- liers n'etait pas sans inconveruents dans la pratique. On resoudra tous les cas ne s'adaptant pas exactement aux exem.ples cites en s'inspirant de l'.espnt des principes directeurs Cl-desSUS. There shall be excluded from hospitalization: 1. All duly verified cases of mental affections; 2. All organic or functional nervous affections reputed to be ineurable; (These two eategories belong to those giving a right to direct repatriation.) 3. Serious ehronic alcoholism; 4. All eontagious affections dur- ing the period in which they are transmissible (acute infectious dis- eases, primary and seeondary syphilis, trachoma, leprosy, etc.). III. General ObservcUions. The conditions given above should, generally speakin~, be interpreted and applied ill as broad a spirit as possible. This breadth of interpretation should be especially applied to neuropathic or psychopathic con- ditions caused or brought to a head by the events of the war or even of the captivity itself (psychasthenia of prisoners of war), and also to cases of tuber- culosis in all degrees. It is needless to state that camp physieians and the mixed medieal commissions may find themselves confronted with a great number of cases not mentioned among the examples given under Section II, or cases not fitting in with these examples. The examples men- tioned above are given only as typical examples; an analogous list of examples of surgical altera- tions has not been drawn up because, with the exeeption of cases incontestable by their very nature (amputations), it is diffi- cult to make a list of partieular types; experience has shown that a recital of these particular cases was not without disadvantages in practice. All cases not fitting exactly into the examples cited shall be de- cided by invoking the s.pirit of the above governing prinCIples.