Army Pensions Act, 1927

FOURTH SCHEDULE.

Scale of Degrees of Disability to Wounds.

Specific Injury

Degree of Disablement

per cent.

Loss of two or more limbs

100

Loss of both hands or of all fingers and thumbs

Total loss of sight

Wounds, injuries, or results of them, resulting in a disabled man being totally bedridden

Wounds, of or injuries to internal, thoracic or abdominal organs involving total permanent disablement

Total organic paralysis resulting from wounds or injuries to brain or spinal cord

Loss of an arm and one eye

90

Loss of a leg and one eye

Loss of a hand and a foot

Loss of one arm through shoulder

Loss of both feet

80

Amputation of leg at hip or below hip, with stump not exceeding five inches in length, measured from tip of great trochanter; of right arm below shoulder, with stump not exceeding six inches, measured from tip of acromion; or of left arm through shoulder

Amputation of leg below hip, with stump exceeding five inches in length, measured from tip of great trochanter, but not below middle thigh; of left arm below shoulder, with stump not exceeding six inches, measured from tip of acromion; or of right arm below shoulder, with stump, exceeding six inches, measured from tip of acromion, through elbow, or below elbow, with stump not exceeding five inches, measured from tip of olecranon

70

Amputation of leg below middle thigh, through knee, or below knee, with stump not exceeding four inches; of left arm below shoulder, with stump exceeding six inches, measured from tip of acromion, through elbow, or below elbow, with stump not exceeding five inches, measured from tip of olecranon; or of right arm below elbow, with stump exceeding five inches, measured from tip of olecranon

60

Amputation of leg below knee, with stump exceeding four inches; or of left arm below elbow, with stump exceeding five inches, measured from tip of olecranon

50

Loss of one eye, the result of G.S.W. or injury

40

Loss of thumb or of four fingers of right hand

40

Loss of thumb or of four fingers of left hand, or three fingers of right hand

30

Lisfranc operation, one foot

30

Loss of all toes, both feet

30

Loss of two fingers, either hand

20

Loss of all toes of one foot

20

Note.—In the case of left-handed men, certified to be such, the compensation in respect of the left arm, etc., will be same as for a right arm hand, etc., and vice versa.