THE MEDICAL BOARD

Southland Times, Issue 17934, 27 January 1917, Page 5

THE MEDICAL BOARD

INVERCARGILL EXAMINATIONS. The southern of the two Otago touring medical boards concluded a two days’ sitting in Invercargill yesterday. The personnel of the Board was the same as previously with the exception that Colonel Barcroft, the former president, has been succeeded by Colonel Pyffe, formerly principal medical officer In Wellington. From now onwards, too, Lieut. F. L. Hunt takes over the position of military representative and attesting officer vice Captain W. H. Feldon. Fifty-five recruits were examined by the Board at its local sitting with the following result: —32 were passed as fit for active service; one was ordered into hospital for treatment; 20 were classed as fit for home service: one will go into camp where special training is calculated to fit him for active service; and there was one absolute reject whose name will now in all probability be removed from the ballot list. The main percentages work out at 5S per cent, for active and 36 per cent, for home service, as against 47 per cent, and 41 per cent, respectively last sittings and 50 per cent, and 16 per cent, at the Board’s first visit when temporarily unfit men were rejected.