MEDICAL REEXAMINATIONS

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 284, 20 August 1918, Page 4

MEDICAL REEXAMINATIONS

THE NEW MULES.

Tho medical re-raamin,\tion of reservists is a subject which has been given a great deal of consideration by the Defence Department. The head of tho medical services (Surgeon-General E. S.' F. Henderson) is responsible that unfit; men do not go into camp or do not leave New Zealand, and that tit men arc not incorrectly p&ssed as ■ unfit, and so practically exempted from their obligations. In the past control has been kept by the Dircetor-General of Medical Services himself reviewing such cases as woro put before him, and cfrdering re-examina-tions, and in some obvious eases, reclassifying. This placed a great deal of routine work upon tho head of tho medical services, General Henderson, and solutions of the problem were sought in vain under the circumstances tlien existing. . . Rocently a complete reorganisation nan been made in the medical side of ilio headquarters of districts, and it has been found possible to throw upon the senior medical officer of each district (the A.D.M.S.) the responsibility torreoxaminations in all case"; T{e-exauuna-tions will in future initiate with tho croup commander, 'to whom the reservist must aDply; tho district A.D.M.S. will bd the judgo as to whether tho re,exammalion will take place or not; the. person to be examined will be called up for reexamination through the Director of Recruiting; tho To-exammaaons will M made by a board of two or tlivee members, according to tile class ot case involved, and no man will bo dealt wit.li except through that group commander who is responsible for the man as a reTho reorganisation of (he medical services in districts was occasioned by !lm assumption by' tho Defence flepartment of the work of tho Health Department m regard to. returned soldiers. It is holieved the change will prove vary valuable in many other respects beyond lli.it for which it is was specifically eftucM, arid a solution of the re-exammation difficulty is one of the first fruits of Ihe reorganisation. |