THE "D" MEN
MAY BE MEDICALLY REEXAMINED.
Complaint has been made m Wellington and elsewhere recently that tn® Defence, authorities havo been calling up men classed "D" for medical reexamination. When the scheme for combing out the men rejected as partially unfit was first announced, it was stated tfc*t only the "C 2" men would be re-examined, for tho reason that these were the only men that woula bo at all likely to prove fit for service, oven after tha special training which, they were to receive. , The Minister of Defence was askect yesterday whether it was a fact that "the papers of "D" men were being looked over, and whether any of these men were being called up for medical, re-examination. "So far as I know, said Sir James Allen, "the papers or tho 'D' men are not being looked, through again, but there is not tho slightest reason why the special medical board which is dealing with tho matter should not re-exnmine tlie D men's papers if the medical officers think fit. I have before me now the case of a 'D' man who was wrongly put into this class. He has now been classified 'C 2.' My impression is that this case was discovered accidentally.
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 50, 22 November 1917, Page 4
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208THE "D" MEN Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 50, 22 November 1917, Page 4
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