BESERVISTS AND MEDICAL CERTIFICATES.
1 (PRESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.) WELLINGTON, .May 22. The medical certificates furnished by men who are called up for examination under the Military Service Act for the information of the Medical Board cease to be the property of the reservists concerned when one© they are handed over, and are not, therefore, returned to them after the examination.
The military authorities take the stand that the information contained in the medical certificates is often of a highly confidential nature, and, in order to safeguard the interests of the man examined, the Medical Boards have considered it advisable to destroy the certificates immediately after they have been perused by the examining doctors. If the reservist desires, to retain the certificate ho has to ask his medical adviser to furnish it in duplicate, one copy being for the Medical Board and one for himself.
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Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16219, 23 May 1918, Page 4
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