LINDSAY— SOLDIERS' AND SAILORS' INSURANCE. 641 



under the conscription law the family is conscripted when the bread 

 winner is taken away. ^ Therefore, the amount paid, if the man is 

 disabled in the line of duty, varies according to the size of his 

 family and changes from month to month or year to year as the 

 family status changes. If a man is a bachelor and is totally dis- 

 abled, he gets $30 a month; if he has a wife but no child living, 

 $45 a month; a wife and one child, $55; a wife and two children 

 $65; a wife and three or more children $75; no wife but one child 

 living $40, with $10 for each additional child up to two ; a widowed 

 mother dependent upon him for support in addition to the above 

 amounts, $10. He is also entitled in addition to free medical, 

 surgical and hospital service and supplies, including artificial limbs, 

 etc., as the director of the War Risk Bureau may determine to be 

 useful and reasonably necessary, and for certain claims of disability 

 such as the loss of both feet, or hands, or both eyes, he gets, in lieu 

 of all other compensation, the flat sum of $100 a month. 



Partial disability is pro-rated at a percentage of the compensa- 

 tion for total disability equal to the degree of the reduction in earn- 

 ing capacity, resulting from the disability. 



In case of death resulting from injury in the line of duty, the 

 monthly compensation paid is as follows : For the widow alone, $25 ; 

 for the widow and one child $35 ; for the widow and tw^o children 

 $47.50 with $5 for each additional child up to two; if there be no 

 widow then for one child $20; for two children $30; for three chil- 

 dren $40 with $5 for each additional child up to two ; for a widowed 

 mother $20, except that the amount paid to a widowed mother when 

 added to the total amount payable to the wife and children does 

 not exceed $75. 



Compensation is payable for the death of but one child. No com- 

 pensation is paid to a widowed mother on account of a child if she is 

 already in receipt of compensation on account of the death of her 

 husband. 



Compensation is further limited by the following considerations : 

 None is paid if the injury or disease was caused by the man's own 

 willful misconduct. None is paid for death or disability occurring 

 later than one year after the man leaves the service, unless a medical 

 examination at the time of his resignation or discharge or within 



