DR. GIBBS' TESTIMONY.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXXIII, Issue 271, 30 November 1899, Page 2

DR. GIBBS' TESTIMONY.

''PASSING" THE MEDICAI. EXAMINATION.

To the Editor of « Thb Evbn JHS Mau,.'' j.i, S fir' , ? 1 1 8^ teinent hav «»-** *>«m made that the lad D. Q. Bums was rejected after a cursory medical examination. I wish to submit the following facta:«Jb -? d D J?- Bur ?**.was sent to me by the Railway Department to he medically examined as to his fitness to enter the railway service and to oceupy eyentnally the position of engine driver. -"-7 ■ ■ On examination, in .- addition to other drawbacks, the lad's hearing . was f O M« defective I carefully ,^tai aiaea jYJ oa two subsequent occasions to see if any- Y thing could be done to improTe the hoy's hearing and to mako sure that it wianofc merely a temporary condition? but ob eadi occasion the result was the same. . The boy Mdujuted a«> great.* degree ofT". | deafness that it was impossible both fot ■ his owa sake aad to the interestof the ■■: " pubhoto^cegfcisMm f pr anypodtioti tot Y'Y matters to .^e ;lad he appawnia7ac?"Y > quiescedin aris deeisiou. -j, So grektHf'theTJoy-8 defect iniearingYiY A that ihe most cursory examim»tioa Y" should not f ail to detect it Y~^7 --- the .KadwayjDppartment followed in thia YY -V oaae a mogfc^iaisual course

kngmlying the second examining officer with any facts concerning the first exiauaatioß and rejection. Such a course pt action is quite at variance with all precedent either in the Railway or cr - other Service.— l am, etc. SYDNEY A. GIBBS. M.B.C.M. Exam. Nelson, November 80, 1899.