THE TEMPORARILY UNFIT

Evening Star, Issue 23744, 27 November 1940, Page 3

THE TEMPORARILY UNFIT

REMEDIAL TREATMENT FREE [Feu United Fuess Association.] AUCKLAND, November 2G. Kemedial treatment at the expense of the Government is to bo provided for certain men who have been classed as temporarily unlit lor active service overseas, according to a letter from the Director-General of Health [Dr M. H. Walt] received by the Auckland Hospital Board. This will not apply to men win/have been classed as temporarily unlit fur the Territorial Force. Dr Watt stated that ho had been advised ol this decision bv the Army Department. On receiving notice from the medical superintendent in his daily sick report that a recruit was to bo 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 the completion of treatment. The letter added that approval has been obtained for the out-patient treatment afforded the sick and wounded personnel of the New Zealand Air Force and the New Zealand Division of the lloyal 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 tho hoards in full satisfaction of their charges.