MEDICAL BOARDS
ALL CONSCRIPTS TO'BE EXAMINED BY WO DOCTORS.
The .Recruiting Board sat yesterday to cousider proposed new regulations under the Military Service Act dealing with the appointment of medical boards to examine men called up for service. The regulations have .not yet been submitted to the Governor. "We hope to establish a medical board consisting of two medical officers for .every military district," said the Defence Minister yosterdsv. "These medical men will hot he practitioners residing in the districts in which they will be asked to act .for lis. We propose to send doctors away from their, own (localities —this in order to avoid all charges or suggestions of unfairness or favouritism. The men to be examined will not bo known to the medical men. No names will be giveiu The examining doctors will he apppinted as permanent officers of the Defence Department. We shall not employ civilian doctors to examino any men called up under Clause 35 or drawn in the ballot. We could under tbe Act examine recruits by a single medical officer, but in order to establish confidence we are using two doctors."
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2917, 1 November 1916, Page 5
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187MEDICAL BOARDS Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2917, 1 November 1916, Page 5
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