Word: fradd
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Increasing tempo of the fighting on the war's many fronts is reflected in the six-fold expansion of facilities in the New England area for convalescence and rehabilitation of wounded war veterans. Thus Norman W. Fradd, Director of Physical Education, on leave of absence from Harvard, and now civilian consultant to the First Service Command, described the inauguration on February 5 of the new 6,000-bed reconditioning base hospital at Camp Edwards...
...Fradd, who is on a one-year leave of absence from Harvard, works solely with the remedial phase of the rehabilitation program, dealing with men in the latter stages of recovery. His experience in working with shell shock and gas cases in France, and with amputees at the Walter Reed Hospital as a Lieutenant during the last war, make him well qualified for this work...
These new reconditioning facilities replace the base which had been operating at Fort Devens since March, 1944. When Fradd left Harvard last June to assume his new duties, some 300 casualties had come for treatment at Devens, having been released from Lovell and Cushing General Hospitals, and from several other receiving centers in this area. As the list reached a peak of 1,100, these facilities proved inadequate, and thus the new "Convalescent Hospital at Camp Edwards" came into being...
...greatest difficulty confronting him, says Fradd, who first came to the University in 1919 as an instructor in Physical Education, is the lack of enough well-trained enlisted men to carry on this work. He and his associates are currently trying to build up a large staff of competent personnel who, in addition to their regular training in this field, will have also seen action under fire themselves. This experience makes them better able to work with war-weary battle casualties...
...soon he will return to his duties at Harvard depends, says Fradd, on several factors, including the size of future casualty lists and the demand created by veterans returning to their studies. In the meantime, he can devote only partial attention to the post-war problems of the Physical Education Department