RETURNED SOLDIERS

Evening Star, Issue 16910, 6 December 1918, Page 7

RETURNED SOLDIERS

MEDICAL ‘■’TREATMENT. The Director-General of the Military ! Medical Services has issued the following ■ statement in regard to the medical troat- : merit of returned soldiers to the Registrar j of the Friendly Societies Department: j “When a returned discharged soldier requires further treatment through the epij demic, or has further trouble from come | disease contracted on active earvico, ho applies to the nearest Defence Office. s-fio ; man is given the option o' going to a civil j hospital or reattesting as a soldier for . treatment at a military hospital. He then fills in particulars on DR. forms 165 | or 167, according to which hospital he has I decided upon, military or otherwise. Ho ■ is sent to a local doctor for a report on the i sains form, which is submitted to the • Assistant Director of Medical Services. This authority makes all necessarv inquiries to ensure the genuineness of case, and, when satisfied, allots the soldier as either an ‘in’ or ‘out’ patient of some particular hospital, advising the hospital ■or the Pensions Hoard. The mar, receives ! treatment until cured, or until the medic.-v superintendent of the hospital decides that ha can no longer benefit by any treatmen given him.”