MEDICAL EXAMINATIONS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXII, Issue LXXII, 23 May 1917, Page 5

MEDICAL EXAMINATIONS.

SECOND DIVISION MEN

Sir James Allen (Minister of Defence), in referring to the demands made by the Second Division League, said: ''The reason why we can't examine the Second Division now is that the examination does not as a rule stand for more than three months. A man may be fit to-day and unfit in three months. Not only this, but the standard by which men are examined alters, and it would be only misleading the Second Division man to have him examined now. Apart from both of these considerations we can't do the work. We have not the staff to do it. We have the greatest difficulty as things are now in dealing with .the men called up in the ballot, and we have no doctors to spare for the formation of more medical boards. We have classified the Second Division, and that is all the warning we can give to men of the Second Division as to the probable date on which they will be required. We know that the First Division wifl last from four to six months, and after that the married men will be drawn upon in the order of their classification.''