MEDICAL INSPECTION.

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2481, 7 June 1915, Page 6

MEDICAL INSPECTION.

£ . (To the Editor.) Sir,-—lt is well your columns were opened to ventilate one's feelings, and also give opinions. A lot of talk there has been about the rejected, and rightl.y so. As a rejected, let me give my opinion. I quite agree that men should sw be thoroughly sound. Take my case. , 1 ha <l every qualification for the post I si- wanted to fill. _ I had had a great ly amount of training on a hospital ship, le also in R.A.M.C., but I was turned n- down through bad teeth, and I, don't ir- complain, more especially now its I o. nave them out. I reckon. Mr. Editor, 8, a man who goes in for hospital work p, ought to go through a stricter medical \r. examination than anybody else, becauso X. the worlE } s . more trying. Some people l\ seem to think that an ordinary orderly n. has nothing to do. Not only has he o. to attend to his patients, who may 0. "umber anything between 14 to 28, and that for twelve or fourteen hours, but 7 lie has to take his share in putting up tlio hospital, digging graves, amending i ; tunoral parades; take his turn on night 1 and a hundred and oue oilier J things. Remember when a hospital is s! v 6mR O sent . out > su cli as our No. lor .. No. - 2 stationary, so many men are .sent out as orderlies, and if any of j' them get laid up that means their work lias to be done by the remaining men, d! ?i • - wor K hard enough without ■ taking; men with you that cannot stand the strain through no fault of their > own. For the orderlies who go on • hospital fillip everyone would have • uo be a swimmer, and know the raethf ods of life-saving. What use to a • wounded man is an orderly who can- ■' -iot swim if the ship is sunk by the ' Pirates. Like the captain, he it is O bo the last rescued, and 2 there is no room m the ship's boat, then God 3 - hew him. I believe, Mr. Editor, all orderlies ought to be strictly examined for their own benefit as well as our soldiers' sake.—l am, eta, MEDICAL INSPECTION BOYS. Feilaing. ;s AN APPEAL TO THE SOLDIERS AT n TRENTHAM. 1. AN OPEN LETTER. !' . We hear from one and another visit- ;■ ing your canip that a certain amount of waste is going on in regard to the balaclava caps and socks made by our •" willing workers, some of whom are your mothers, sisters, sweethearts, and little mites of eight years old and upwards who give tip their plaj'-hours to make the article mentioned. Now, hoys, this '■ won't do, and if you think what, it l " means eventually I am sure you will a help us by adopting some means of 15 handing in all sox, handmade and woven, when new ones are issued to you. They • could be sent to a laundry to be washed, ! > and we would willingly do our share of '• repairing and refooting them. The position is this: There are hundreds of caps, scarves, sox, etc., still being asked for to supply your comrades going forward and the wounded men. At the prey sent time we cannot procure suitablo i wool, though we have tried every avail--1 able place'in the Dominion, so if you s waste material your comrades will be 3 left without, and you don't want that to i happen. If you have more balaclavas . than you need, hand them back, and we 1 will not have to work sixteen and , eighteen hours a day to keep up the f demand. Now, men, eyes right, double - up, and save the woollen garments. 3 Wishing you all a safe return, I am, e tc. , " A BATTLER FOR WOOL.