REMEDIAL TREATMENT

Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 November 1940, Page 3

REMEDIAL TREATMENT

TEMPORARILY UNFIT MEN. I AT EXPENSE OF GOVERNMENT. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, November 26. Remedial treatment at the expense of the Government is to be provided for certain men who have been classed as temporarily unfit for active service overseas, according to a letter from the Director-General of Health. Dr. Walt, received by the Auckland Hospital Beard. This will not apply to men who have been classed as temporarily unfit for the Territorial Force. Dr. Watt said he had been advised of this decision by the Army Department. On receiving notice from the medical superintendent in his daily sick report that a recruit was to be discharged from hospital or that his treatment would be completed, arrangements would be made for his examination by a medical board before his discharge or immediately on completion of treatment. The letter added that approval had been obtained for out-patient treatment afforded to sick and wounded personnel of the Royal New Zealand Air Force and the New Zealand Division of the Royal Navy at two-thirds of the usual charges of the boards concerned. Payments made by the Government under these arrangements are to be accepted by boards in full satisfaction of their charges.