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Motueka Star, Volume III, Issue 115, 19 September 1902, Page 2

E. R. DISTRICT ORDER. September Regulations for Medical Exsemination of Returned Members of Contingents . . {a). Bona fide invalids are those who have been invalided from South Africa, and who can produce documentary evi- : ' dence to this effect, or who hate bein pronounced fit subjects for an In valid.Board .by the medical officer- ir» charge of tlie returning ship, dr a-cert i- .« ficate from a medical officer in South Africa. (6) A member of any Contingent within six months of his landing* "iu New Zealand can go to any medicals man to be examined and pay for such If the doctor certifies he is in such a . si ate as the Jesuit of Active Service that a Medical Board is advisable, the. Officer Commanding; the District .will send the man before a Medical Board. Me a receiving the above eertificites fro n a doct »r will at once report thernsel v r es co Ciptain Deck .between the hours of 9 a.iu. and noon v and 1 p.m. and 5 p.m. daily. (c). A Medical Board is empowered to grant leave up to six months, and a Government Medical Officer or Volunteer Medical Staff Officer may grant leave up to two months, such leaves to date from tl e assembling of the Board. A Board , Government Medical Officer or Volunteer Medical Staff Officer can recommend.an invalid tor re-examination », i exp. ration of his original leave. (cZ). Should Medical Boards, Government Medical Officers;- or Volunteer Medical Staff Officers, as the case may he, consider that a returned trooper is entitled in the first case to more than months;,lea ve, r in tjie second case. more than two- months’ leave, they should-state so on v in the proper placed Vind recommend toem. for re-examination tin the expiration of. their leave. /yO ■(«}• All Metrical 'Boards must be made out. on the prescribed forms, and, wh e n a full Medical Board can not Mssemble,one authorised Government Medical Officer;- arid when . sueh a*t* officer is not available one Officer of ' Volunteer Medical Staft*, will be held to constitute a Board, having power to grant leave up to tvvo months; Prot- edings ;to be forwarded without delay through Officer Coin mandi fig District. ' .. . (/). Either Medicil Boards, Government Medical Officers, - otj Medical Staff Officers, returned troopers for; treWuent at Government Sanatoriums ,at either Ha m tier or R itorua. When it is con - sistent .with the state of health of the man. Rotorua should be recommended fbr'rren residing in the North Island, and Ha inner for the men residing in the S uth Island. (g). When-either the Board, Government Medical Officer, or Volunteer Medical Staff Officer considers the injury to the man to be of a permanent mature, or equivalent to the loss of a lirrth, under the provisions of “The Military Pensions Extension- to Contingents Act, 1900,’’ .they should recommend him to be' sent before a Pensions Board. (A). When either a Board, Government Medical Officer, or Volunteer Medical Stiff Officer considers that in | addition to sick-leave, the men should I have free medical treatment, it must | v >e distinctly so stated on the Board, , and where it is possible, and consistent | with the man’s illness he should be \ sent to a Government Hospital, in j preference to receiving outdoor treatj raenfc. Where it is ( consideiedj. necesi ary for him to have outdoor treat-