{"id":115038,"date":"2024-04-08T16:35:25","date_gmt":"2024-04-08T20:35:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/department.va.gov\/history\/?p=115038"},"modified":"2026-03-04T16:49:43","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T21:49:43","slug":"076-presumptive-conditions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/department.va.gov\/history\/076-presumptive-conditions\/","title":{"rendered":"Object 76: Senate Speech Proposing First Presumptive Conditions For Great War Veterans"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>.kb-image115038_a214f6-b1.kb-image-is-ratio-size, .kb-image115038_a214f6-b1 .kb-image-is-ratio-size{max-width:500px;width:100%;}.wp-block-kadence-column > .kt-inside-inner-col > .kb-image115038_a214f6-b1.kb-image-is-ratio-size, .wp-block-kadence-column > .kt-inside-inner-col > .kb-image115038_a214f6-b1 .kb-image-is-ratio-size{align-self:unset;}.kb-image115038_a214f6-b1 figure{max-width:500px;}.kb-image115038_a214f6-b1 .image-is-svg, .kb-image115038_a214f6-b1 .image-is-svg img{width:100%;}.kb-image115038_a214f6-b1 .kb-image-has-overlay:after{opacity:0.3;}.kb-image115038_a214f6-b1 img.kb-img, .kb-image115038_a214f6-b1 .kb-img img{border-top:0px solid #000000;border-right:0px solid #000000;border-bottom:0px solid #000000;border-left:0px solid #000000;}@media all and (max-width: 1024px){.kb-image115038_a214f6-b1 img.kb-img, .kb-image115038_a214f6-b1 .kb-img img{border-top:0px solid #000000;border-right:0px solid #000000;border-bottom:0px solid #000000;border-left:0px solid #000000;}}@media all and (max-width: 767px){.kb-image115038_a214f6-b1 img.kb-img, .kb-image115038_a214f6-b1 .kb-img img{border-top:0px solid #000000;border-right:0px solid #000000;border-bottom:0px solid #000000;border-left:0px solid #000000;}}<\/style>\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-image kb-image115038_a214f6-b1\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/department.va.gov\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2024\/04\/076-Speech-Walsh2-e1712676987598.png\" class=\"kb-advanced-image-link\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1333\" height=\"1743\" src=\"https:\/\/department.va.gov\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2024\/04\/076-Speech-Walsh2-e1712676987598.png?resize=1071,1400\" data-orig-src=\"https:\/\/department.va.gov\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2024\/04\/076-Speech-Walsh2-e1712676987598.png?resize=1071,1400\" alt=\"Page from 1921 Congressional Record.\" class=\"lazyload kb-img wp-image-115047\" srcset=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%27http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%27%20width%3D%271333%27%20height%3D%271743%27%20viewBox%3D%270%200%201333%201743%27%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%271333%27%20height%3D%271743%27%20fill-opacity%3D%220%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/department.va.gov\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2024\/04\/076-Speech-Walsh2-e1712676987598.png?resize=229,300 229w, https:\/\/department.va.gov\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2024\/04\/076-Speech-Walsh2-e1712676987598.png?resize=459,600 459w, https:\/\/department.va.gov\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2024\/04\/076-Speech-Walsh2-e1712676987598.png?resize=768,1004 768w, https:\/\/department.va.gov\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2024\/04\/076-Speech-Walsh2-e1712676987598.png?resize=1071,1400 1071w, https:\/\/department.va.gov\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2024\/04\/076-Speech-Walsh2-e1712676987598.png?resize=1175,1536 1175w, https:\/\/department.va.gov\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2024\/04\/076-Speech-Walsh2-e1712676987598.png 1333w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" data-orig-sizes=\"(max-width: 1333px) 100vw, 1333px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Page from 1921 Congressional Record with Senator David Walsh\u2019s speech proposing to treat tuberculosis and neuropsychiatric disorders as automatically service connected for compensation purposes. Inset: Walsh in an undated photo. (congress.gov; Library of Congress)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After World War I, claims for disability from discharged soldiers poured into the offices of the <a href=\"https:\/\/department.va.gov\/history\/100-objects\/object-44-bureau-of-war-risk-insurance-smithsonian-museum\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"107514\">Bureau of War Risk Insurance<\/a>, the federal agency responsible for evaluating them. By mid-1921, the bureau had awarded some amount of compensation to 337,000 Veterans. But another 258,000 had been denied benefits. Some of the men turned away were suffering from <a href=\"https:\/\/department.va.gov\/history\/100-objects\/089-tb\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"116047\">tuberculosis <\/a>or neuropsychiatric disorders. These Veterans were often rebuffed not because bureau officials doubted the validity or seriousness of their ailments, but for a different reason: they could not prove their conditions were service connected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Since the time of the <a href=\"https:\/\/department.va.gov\/history\/100-objects\/object-7-portrait-joseph-winter\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"104326\">American Revolution<\/a>, Veterans seeking compensation for a wartime injury had to furnish documentation, typically in the form of affidavits, establishing the link between their military service and their disability. Meeting the burden of proof could be difficult under any circumstances. It was especially challenging for Great War Veterans who contracted tuberculosis or developed some sort of neuropsychological problem. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The two conditions were commonplace during the war years. They accounted for an estimated one-third of the more than 300,000 medical discharges from the Army between 1917 and 1919. These maladies were also responsible for about two-thirds of the <a href=\"https:\/\/department.va.gov\/history\/100-objects\/64-public-health-service\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"114138\">hospitalizations <\/a>of military men after the war. Yet, claimants with tuberculosis or mental disturbances still struggled to make their case to the Bureau of War Risk Insurance. In some instances, the problem was that they showed no signs of the disease until after their release from service. In other instances, they failed to provide sufficient evidence tying their illness to their time in uniform.<\/p>\n\n\n<style>.kb-image115038_38a41d-fc.kb-image-is-ratio-size, .kb-image115038_38a41d-fc .kb-image-is-ratio-size{max-width:425px;width:100%;}.wp-block-kadence-column > .kt-inside-inner-col > .kb-image115038_38a41d-fc.kb-image-is-ratio-size, .wp-block-kadence-column > .kt-inside-inner-col > .kb-image115038_38a41d-fc .kb-image-is-ratio-size{align-self:unset;}.kb-image115038_38a41d-fc figure{max-width:425px;}.kb-image115038_38a41d-fc .image-is-svg, .kb-image115038_38a41d-fc .image-is-svg img{width:100%;}.kb-image115038_38a41d-fc .kb-image-has-overlay:after{opacity:0.3;}.kb-image115038_38a41d-fc img.kb-img, .kb-image115038_38a41d-fc .kb-img img{border-top:0px solid #000000;border-right:0px solid #000000;border-bottom:0px solid #000000;border-left:0px solid #000000;}@media all and (max-width: 1024px){.kb-image115038_38a41d-fc img.kb-img, .kb-image115038_38a41d-fc .kb-img img{border-top:0px solid #000000;border-right:0px solid #000000;border-bottom:0px solid #000000;border-left:0px solid #000000;}}@media all and (max-width: 767px){.kb-image115038_38a41d-fc img.kb-img, .kb-image115038_38a41d-fc .kb-img img{border-top:0px solid #000000;border-right:0px solid #000000;border-bottom:0px solid #000000;border-left:0px solid #000000;}}<\/style>\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-image kb-image115038_38a41d-fc\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/department.va.gov\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2024\/04\/076-patients.png\" class=\"kb-advanced-image-link\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1197\" height=\"1477\" src=\"https:\/\/department.va.gov\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2024\/04\/076-patients.png?resize=1135,1400\" data-orig-src=\"https:\/\/department.va.gov\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2024\/04\/076-patients.png?resize=1135,1400\" alt=\"Veterans resting in the sun parlor.\" class=\"lazyload kb-img wp-image-115037\" srcset=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%27http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%27%20width%3D%271197%27%20height%3D%271477%27%20viewBox%3D%270%200%201197%201477%27%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%271197%27%20height%3D%271477%27%20fill-opacity%3D%220%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/department.va.gov\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2024\/04\/076-patients.png?resize=243,300 243w, https:\/\/department.va.gov\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2024\/04\/076-patients.png?resize=486,600 486w, https:\/\/department.va.gov\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2024\/04\/076-patients.png?resize=768,948 768w, https:\/\/department.va.gov\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2024\/04\/076-patients.png?resize=1135,1400 1135w, https:\/\/department.va.gov\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2024\/04\/076-patients.png 1197w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" data-orig-sizes=\"(max-width: 1197px) 100vw, 1197px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Veterans resting in the sun parlor for tuberculosis patients at the Dayton, Ohio, branch of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, c. 1919. Thousands of service members contracted the highly communicable disease during and after World War I. (Library of Congress).<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Their plight caught the attention of Massachusetts Senator David I. Walsh. By early 1921, Veterans organizations, the press, and politicians from both parties had all concluded that the federal government was <a href=\"https:\/\/department.va.gov\/history\/100-objects\/object-21-bonus-army\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"104428\">falling short<\/a> in its efforts to serve disabled Veterans. In the spring, Congress decided to act. The House approved a sweeping plan backed by the American Legion to replace the Bureau of War Risk Insurance with a new agency that would be responsible for all benefit programs for World War I Veterans, from compensation and <a href=\"https:\/\/department.va.gov\/history\/100-objects\/081-wwi-insurance-certificate\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"115445\">insurance <\/a>to vocational training and medical care. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the Senate, Walsh headed a special committee that conducted hearings and collected data on the treatment of disabled soldiers in preparation for a vote on the House bill. In late July, when the Senate as a whole convened to debate the bill, Walsh stood up from his chair to offer an amendment that would bring relief to \u201cthe tremendous number of our ex-service men [who] are undeniably afflicted with tuberculosis . . . [or] nervous and mental diseases.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Over and over again, he explained, he had heard anguished complaints from \u201cmen who have these diseases, know they have them, have had it demonstrated by doctors that they have them, and then have the Government say to them, \u2018Prove it, prove it, prove that you have the disease as a result of your service.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n<style>.kb-image115038_f91ae5-53.kb-image-is-ratio-size, .kb-image115038_f91ae5-53 .kb-image-is-ratio-size{max-width:450px;width:100%;}.wp-block-kadence-column > .kt-inside-inner-col > .kb-image115038_f91ae5-53.kb-image-is-ratio-size, .wp-block-kadence-column > .kt-inside-inner-col > .kb-image115038_f91ae5-53 .kb-image-is-ratio-size{align-self:unset;}.kb-image115038_f91ae5-53 figure{max-width:450px;}.kb-image115038_f91ae5-53 .image-is-svg, .kb-image115038_f91ae5-53 .image-is-svg img{width:100%;}.kb-image115038_f91ae5-53 .kb-image-has-overlay:after{opacity:0.3;}.kb-image115038_f91ae5-53 img.kb-img, .kb-image115038_f91ae5-53 .kb-img img{border-top:0px solid #000000;border-right:0px solid #000000;border-bottom:0px solid #000000;border-left:0px solid #000000;}@media all and (max-width: 1024px){.kb-image115038_f91ae5-53 img.kb-img, .kb-image115038_f91ae5-53 .kb-img img{border-top:0px solid #000000;border-right:0px solid #000000;border-bottom:0px solid #000000;border-left:0px solid #000000;}}@media all and (max-width: 767px){.kb-image115038_f91ae5-53 img.kb-img, .kb-image115038_f91ae5-53 .kb-img img{border-top:0px solid #000000;border-right:0px solid #000000;border-bottom:0px solid #000000;border-left:0px solid #000000;}}<\/style>\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-image kb-image115038_f91ae5-53\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/department.va.gov\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2024\/04\/076-Lexington-hospital.png\" class=\"kb-advanced-image-link\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"978\" height=\"525\" src=\"https:\/\/department.va.gov\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2024\/04\/076-Lexington-hospital.png?w=978\" data-orig-src=\"https:\/\/department.va.gov\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2024\/04\/076-Lexington-hospital.png?w=978\" alt=\"Government hospital in Lexington, Kentucky.\" class=\"lazyload kb-img wp-image-115036\" srcset=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%27http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%27%20width%3D%27978%27%20height%3D%27525%27%20viewBox%3D%270%200%20978%20525%27%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%27978%27%20height%3D%27525%27%20fill-opacity%3D%220%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/department.va.gov\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2024\/04\/076-Lexington-hospital.png?resize=300,161 300w, https:\/\/department.va.gov\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2024\/04\/076-Lexington-hospital.png?resize=600,322 600w, https:\/\/department.va.gov\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2024\/04\/076-Lexington-hospital.png?resize=768,412 768w, https:\/\/department.va.gov\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2024\/04\/076-Lexington-hospital.png 978w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" data-orig-sizes=\"(max-width: 978px) 100vw, 978px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Government hospital in Lexington, Kentucky. c., 1930s, one of many built after the war to treat Veterans with neuropsychiatric problems. Specialists believed that most cases were due not to combat trauma but to the stress of military service more generally, couple with a predisposition for mental illness and other variables. (kyhi.org)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The remedy Walsh proposed was to remove the burden of proof from the claimant. \u201cMy amendment would raise a presumption at once that as he has one of the aforesaid diseases he must have contracted it in line of service.\u201d While this represented a major departure from more than a century of statutory practice governing wartime disabilities, Walsh emphasized to his fellow senators that the exception only applied to two specific categories of medical complaints. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After a brief discussion, the measure was approved and incorporated into the bill. The Senate completed its work on the legislation soon after and the act establishing the <a href=\"https:\/\/department.va.gov\/history\/featured-stories\/veterans-bureau\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"104069\">Veterans Bureau<\/a> to oversee all benefits for Great War Veterans became law on August 9, 1921. In its final form, Walsh\u2019s amendment granted a presumption of service connection to anyone diagnosed with tuberculosis or a neuropsychiatric disease within two years of separation from military service. Eleven months after the Veterans Bureau began applying the new rules for claims, over 57,000 tuberculosis sufferers and mental health cases were receiving a monthly check for their condition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Although limited at first to two types of disabilities, the 1921 act also authorized the head of the Veterans Bureau to make any rules and regulations necessary to carry out the provisions of the law, thus opening the door to more exceptions. Sure enough, before the end of the year, the Veterans Bureau had granted presumptive status to diabetes, leukemia, rickets, and other ailments classified as chronic constitutional diseases that became manifest within a year of discharge. The presumptive list continued to grow under the <a href=\"https:\/\/department.va.gov\/history\/featured-stories\/va-created\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"104138\">Veterans Administration<\/a>, which replaced the Veterans Bureau in 1930. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After World War II, VA used its regulatory powers to establish a new category of presumptions, tropical diseases. By 1957, when Congress codified all benefits laws, VA recognized 40 chronic and 17 tropical diseases as presumptive. In the 1970s and 1980s, Congress applied the presumptive label to a range of diseases and disorders affecting <a href=\"https:\/\/department.va.gov\/history\/100-objects\/079-prisoners-of-war-study\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"115130\">former prisoners of war<\/a>. In more recent years, a series of landmark laws starting with the Agent Orange Act in 1991 and culminating in the 2022 PACT Act have extended the presumption of service connection to Veterans with health conditions arising from their exposure to toxic substances and environmental hazards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After World War I, claims for disability from discharged soldiers poured into the offices of the Bureau of War Risk Insurance, the federal agency responsible for evaluating them. By mid-1921, the bureau had awarded some amount of compensation to 337,000 Veterans. But another 258,000 had been denied benefits. Some of the men turned away were suffering from tuberculosis or neuropsychiatric disorders. These Veterans were often rebuffed not because bureau officials doubted the validity or seriousness of their ailments, but for a different reason: they could not prove their conditions were service connected. <\/p>\n<p>Due to the delayed nature of the diseases, which could appear after service was completed, Massachusetts Senator David Walsh and VSOs pursued legislation to assist Veterans with their claims. Eventually this led to the first presumptive conditions for Veteran benefits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":117387,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[27,99,89,28,91,105,24,32,8],"class_list":["post-115038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-100-objects","tag-civil-war","tag-revolutionary-war","tag-veteran-service-organization","tag-veterans-administration","tag-veterans-benefits","tag-veterans-benefits-administration","tag-veterans-bureau","tag-world-war-i","tag-world-war-ii"],"parsely":{"version":"1.1.0","canonical_url":"https:\/\/department.va.gov\/history\/076-presumptive-conditions\/","meta":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Object 76: Senate Speech Proposing First Presumptive Conditions For Great War Veterans","url":"http:\/\/department.va.gov\/history\/076-presumptive-conditions\/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"http:\/\/department.va.gov\/history\/076-presumptive-conditions\/"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/department.va.gov\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2024\/04\/Object-76-Featured-Image.webp?w=300","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https:\/\/department.va.gov\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2024\/04\/Object-76-Featured-Image.webp"},"articleSection":"History of VA in 100 Objects","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Department of Veterans Affairs (smw)"}],"creator":["Department of Veterans Affairs (smw)"],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"VA History","logo":""},"keywords":["civil war","revolutionary war","veteran service organization","veterans administration","veterans benefits","veterans benefits administration","veterans bureau","world war i","world war ii"],"dateCreated":"2024-04-08T20:35:25Z","datePublished":"2024-04-08T20:35:25Z","dateModified":"2026-03-04T21:49:43Z"},"rendered":"<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"wp-parsely-metadata\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@type\":\"NewsArticle\",\"headline\":\"Object 76: Senate Speech Proposing First Presumptive Conditions For Great War Veterans\",\"url\":\"http:\\\/\\\/department.va.gov\\\/history\\\/076-presumptive-conditions\\\/\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"http:\\\/\\\/department.va.gov\\\/history\\\/076-presumptive-conditions\\\/\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/department.va.gov\\\/history\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/sites\\\/10\\\/2024\\\/04\\\/Object-76-Featured-Image.webp?w=300\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/department.va.gov\\\/history\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/sites\\\/10\\\/2024\\\/04\\\/Object-76-Featured-Image.webp\"},\"articleSection\":\"History of VA in 100 Objects\",\"author\":[{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"name\":\"Department of Veterans Affairs (smw)\"}],\"creator\":[\"Department of Veterans Affairs (smw)\"],\"publisher\":{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"name\":\"VA History\",\"logo\":\"\"},\"keywords\":[\"civil war\",\"revolutionary war\",\"veteran service organization\",\"veterans administration\",\"veterans benefits\",\"veterans benefits administration\",\"veterans bureau\",\"world war i\",\"world war ii\"],\"dateCreated\":\"2024-04-08T20:35:25Z\",\"datePublished\":\"2024-04-08T20:35:25Z\",\"dateModified\":\"2026-03-04T21:49:43Z\"}<\/script>","tracker_url":"https:\/\/cdn.parsely.com\/keys\/department.va.gov\/p.js"},"meta_box":{"external_links":"1","endorsement":"0","subheading":"","featured_image_alt_text":"Page from 1921 Congressional Record with Senator David Walsh\u2019s speech proposing to grant Great War Veterans with tuberculosis or neuropsychiatric disorders a presumption of service connection for compensation purposes. 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