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that the veteran had no service in the tropics or in a locality having a high in cidence of the disease may be considered as evidence to rebut the presumption.
The record must be negative as to in ception prior or subsequent to service, and residence during the year following this service must not have been in the tropics or in a region where the par ticular disease is endemic. The known incubation period for such diseases should be used as a factor in the rebuttal of service connection, that is, to show inception prior or subsequent to active service. Existing procedure whereby service connection may be granted for malaria without diagnosis on Veterans Administration examination remains unchanged.

RULES AND REGULATIONS
P art 12D isposition of V eterans P ersonal F unds and E ffects MISCELLANEOUS AMENDMENTS

and on the ward, will carefully, safeguard such property and, upon completion of the tour of duty, will turn the funds and effects over to the properly desig nated employees.

1. Paragraph a of 12.1 is amended

as follows:
3 The inventory report will be exe 12.1 Designate cases: competent veterans, a Each competent veteran cuted in triplicate, original and two cop now being cared for or who is hereafter ies. All will be signed by the employee making the inventory, and disposed of admitted to receive care as such at a Vet as provided for in pertinent procedural erans Administration field station, un less it be detrimental to his health, will instructions.
4 Personally owned clothing or other be requested and encouraged to designate on the prescribed VA Form 10-P-10, effects such as tooth brushes, false teeth Application for Hospital Treatment or not containing gold, etc. which are un Domiciliary Care, the person to whom he serviceable by reason of wear or tear or desires the Veterans Administration to insanitary condition, and clothing that deliver his funds and effects in event of had been supplied by the Government, death. He may also designate an alter will not be included in this inventory; in

nate to whom delivery will be made if the stead, the unserviceable personally e Physical examination reports, clini first designate fails or refuses to accept owned articles will be listed on a separate cal records and transcripts of records re delivery. It should be clearly understood list, with their condition briefly described, ceived from state, county, municipal and that the delivery of such funds or effects and their disposition recommended in a recognized private institutions and con will constitute only a delivery of posses separate report to the manager on VA
tract hospitals. Generally, notarized sion thereof, and such delivery is not Form 10-2687a, Inventory Report of Un physical examination reports, clinical intended to affect in any manner the title serviceable Personally Owned Effects of records and transcripts of records from to such funds or effects or determine the Beneficiary. The manager, if approving State, county, municipal, and recognized person ultimately entitled to receive same this recommendation, will order destruc private institutions and contract hospi from the person to whom delivery ip tion or utilization in occupational tals relative to veterans undergoing made hereinafter in the regulations in tlierapy, or as wipe rags, etc., of such treatment or domiciled therein, made this part termed the designate . The unserviceable articles and, when they are contemporaneously, whether by the Vet person designated may not be an em so destroyed or utilized, will have en erans Administration or otherwise, will ployee of the Veterans Administration tered on the papers the date and nature be accorded the same consideration for unless such employee be the wife or hus of the disposition. The completed pa the purpose of establishing service con band, child, grandchild, mother, father, pers will then be placed in the corre nections as though the records were re grandmother, grandfather, brother, or spondence file of the beneficiary. Cloth ceived from a Veterans Administration sister of the veteran. The veteran, or if ing that had been supplied by the field station. These records, however, he becomes incompetent, his guardian, Government will be reconditioned if pos must present the essentials upon which may in writing change or revoke such sible and returned to stock for issue to other eligible beneficiaries. When Gov ratings are to be founded, that is, the designation at any time.
ernment-owned clothing cannot be re disabling conditions must be adequately

conditioned it will be disposed of as pro identified; sufficient findings must be re 2. Paragraph a of 12.2 is amended vided by Veterans Administration supply ported to permit proper evaluation of the as follows;
procedures.
condition, and they must be certified by
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12.2 Designate cases; incompetent chief medical officers or their physician designates. As to private institutions, veterans, a An incompetent veteran b Upon completion of the survey and the hospitals listed in the hospital num will not be informed concerning the des inventory the effects will be turned over ber of The Journal of the American ignation of a person to receive funds or to the designated employee for safe Medical Association usually published effects; but if he has a guardian the keeping.
Any funds found which in April of each year and followed by the guardian will be requested to make such apparently were the property of the de symbol consisting of a shaded triangle designation of himself or another per ceased will be turned over to the manager, are recognized. This symbol indicates son to receive possession of the funds and or his designated representative, and de that the hospital has been approved by effects upon the incompetents death. livered immediately to the agent cashier, guardian will sign the letter desig who shall deposit same in the account the American College of Surgeons as The nating himself or another person with meeting unconditionally its minimum re the veterans name B y ________ ;____ _ Personal Funds of Patients. If the funds include an unendorsed personal quirements for general standardization. Guardian of his Estate.
check, this will be held by th agent cash If the name of the private hospital at

ier for safekeeping, pending disposition which the veteran was examined or 8. Paragraphs a 1, a 3 and thereof.
treated does not appear on the approved a 4, and paragraph b of 12.3
4.
In 12.4, paragraphs a 2, a list, the chief medical officer or his phy are amended as follows:
3, a 4, and a 5 are renumbered sician designate will be requested to ad a 3, a 4, a 5, and a 6, 12.3 Deceased veterans cases.
vise whether the hospital meets the min a 1 If the death or absence with respectively; a new paragraph a 2 is imum requirements for the care and added; and paragraphs b and d are treatment of Veterans Administration out leave occurred during hospitaliza amended.
tion, a complete, careful survey and in patients and for hospital facilities as pre ventory VA Form 2687, Inventory Re 12.4 Disposition of effects and fund scribed in current directives of the De port of Personally Owned Effects of to designate: exceptions.
partment of Medicine and Surgery. De Beneficiary will be made of all the per a
pending upon the advice of the chief sonal effects including those in the cus 2 An heir capable of inheriting the medical officer or his physician designate, tody of the hospital, jewelry being worn personal property of the veteran makes the report will be accepted or corrobora by the deceased person, or jewelry and claim for the funds and effects prior to tive examination by the Veterans Ad other effects in pockets of clothing he delivery to the designate.

may have been wearing and all funds ministration requested.
found and moneys on deposit in Per b When authorized by the manager VA Instruction 1-A, Pub. Law 748, 80th sonal Funds of Patients. In the event or his designated representative, the Cong.
death occurred during other than official effects will be delivered or shipped to the seal O. W. C lark, working hours, the officer of the day designate. If shipped at Government Executive Assistant Administrator.
and/or the charge nurse will collect and expense, the shipment shall be made in F. R. Doc. 49-404; Filed, Jan. 17, 1949; inventory all funds and personal effects the most economical manner but in no 8:50 a. m.
case at a cost in excess of $10. If such on the person of the deceased beneficiary