TRAVELLING MEDICAL BOARD.

Wanganui Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 15970, 12 November 1919, Page 2

TRAVELLING MEDICAL BOARD.

PROTEST BY SOLDIERS. (Per United Press Association.) DUNEDIN, November 11. At a public meeting to-night, convened by the Returned Soldiers’ Association, a motion was carried emphatically protesting against the action of the travelling Medical Board in discharging men still undergoing medical treatment. The meeting demanded that the Prime Minister take action to reinstate under the Defence Department all men discharged who are not physically fit to return to their former occupation, or enter on training to fit them for a new vocation suitable to their disabilities, and that in future when men are examined for discharge by a travelling Medical Board, the evidence of the medical officer attending the case be taken before a decision is arrived at.