RE-EXAMINATION OF RESERVISTS.
MEDICAL BOARD BE-OOMMENCES WORK. (Special Correspondent.) Wellington, Jan, 5. The special Mcclioal Board, set up for the re-examination, of reservists previously declared unfit for active service has started work again. $ is at presdnt working in Auckland, and; during the next four or five months it will, travel rin'ht through New Zealand and examine about 5000 men. Theso comprise ballottod men drawn after tho oth, ballot and First Division volunteers. It i 9 expected that a substantial proportion of the men will he re-classifled and sent eit'rter to the training camps or to the CI camp for special training. The re-examination of rejected' volunteers is a necessajy part of the system. Reservists who volunteered and were given leave without pay after being classed unfit, avoided tile' 1 ballot, and it is essential that their papers should pass through the hands of the CI Board for reconsideration if the "clean-up" of the First Division is to be complete. The re-examination of the rejected Second Division volunteers will corao later. The men wilt bo called after the exhaustion of their class by the ballot. The rejected A. Class volunteers will not be called up for re-examination until all A Class men who did nob volunteer "have been ballotted.
A draft of recruits is to enter CI camp this month, the mobilisation beginning on the 15th. No reinforcement is to be mobilised this month. The next draft, the 30th Reinforcement, will go into camp during the days February 5-9. | The classification of balloted men and volunteers by the Medical Boards is not I always fully understood. The men axe graded by the Boards as. follows at the first examination: A—Fit for active service beyond the. l seas. . Bl—Fit for active service beyond the seas after operation in camp or public hospital. ' E'2—Fit for active service after recovery at home. Cl—Likely to become fit for active service after special training. C2 —Unfit for active service beyond the sens, but fit for service of some; nature in y,ew Zealand. , 1) Wholly unfit for any «ervice what- \ ever. Men wsio are classed CI are placed'in the CI camp, where they are given special training with the object of making them fit. Men who have been classed C2 or D may be called before the CI Board for re-examination if the medical officers, after looking nt the records of the. first examination, consider that there is some chance of their proving fit for training in the 01 camp.
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Taranaki Daily News, 7 January 1918, Page 2
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413RE-EXAMINATION OF RESERVISTS. Taranaki Daily News, 7 January 1918, Page 2
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