MEDICAL RE-EXAMINATIONS.

Taranaki Daily News, 20 August 1918, Page 5

MEDICAL RE-EXAMINATIONS.

. NEW ARRANGEMENTS, ' By Telegraph—Press Association. !fi Wellington, Last Night, *,-51 The medical re-examination ot reser-< vists has been given a great deal of con. a aideration by the Defence Department/'; Hitherto the control Ims been kspt by I the, Director-*General of Medical brr- ; vices, who reviewed the cases put fore him and ordered re-examinations, J Recently a complete reorganisation lias, been made in the medical side of the headquarters district, and it has be illfound possible to throw 1 |.mi the senior,, medical officer of each district the 'sponsibility for re-examinations in all . cases. The examinations will:'initiate ' with the group commander, to \wi'<m tin ; reservist must applv. Tlic district j A.D.M.S. will be the judiie whether examination will take plaee. The per- s son to be examined will be oalledrup for re-examination through the Direotor of' Recruiting. The re-examinations will • be made by a board of two or thre? j members according to the claas of ca&e. ■» involved, and no man will ba dealt with -j except through that group commindcp, ■ who is responsible for the man as a ro- \ cruit. The Defence Commission recommended'' the list of reservists classed as C2 anrf ■ D should be published fur general information. A list of - the First Division in these classifications is being juepared V and will be published shortly. It ig a likely to appear in sections, as a com- j plete list cannot be prepared until tlj», C2 Re-examination Board has finished its ' work. Thk board is expected to 1 dertake its fourth itinerajy shortly. -j