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explanation is the difference of opinion LORD NORTHCLIFFE TO THE CUTLER PALMER & COS which exists among medical men
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'a examination and a pro- vious one you would say it was solely due Sir Alfred Keogh, Director General of to differences of opinion I should not the Army Medical Borvice, giving evidence say solely, because I think the men who⠀ In an informal address at the Playera" before the Select Committee of the House work on these boards have become more Club, New York, where he was outer- of Commons inquiring into the working proficient Whelanscorpions tamed at luncheon, recently, Lord North of the Military Service (Review of Ex leads to more acceptances or rejectionscliffe said; ceptions) Act, said that in the early days. of the war when recruiting enthusision, working of the boards, the acti 1 trust that the United States will not was at its height, it was not possible to establish any organised system for medi- to lowering the standard-I should say of the past. Englund was kept in the Has there been a general instruction as ke te sorship blunder that England mad, and which is just becoming an eva? cal examination, and local practitioners certainly, at Pringle, Sir dark for nearly three years. People wore had to be employed for Dy battaling. Further answering Mr. Not until the Derby scheme was any or Alfred described the occasional meeting blinded by the fatuous optanium of ganised system set up. He suggested that of deputy directors of medical services politicians who, while effective in pesce, as few recruiting centres as possible the Wax Office to discuss the conduct were incompetent in war. People were should be established and that recruits of medical boards. As a result of such not permitted to know the truth, and should be examined by medical boards meetings letters would be written to gen when the truth finally emerged out: 65 instead of by individual officers, in order) erals commanding districts calling atten- costly blinders and sacrifices they were that every opportunity should be given tion to matters which required looking fouth to accept it. for the determination of a man's fitness into, such as scandals, remarks in news- I hope America may permit her newe- or unfitness for any class of Army work. popers, and so on. Med ma
Categories A, B, and C werd, net jui Mr. Pringle Is it
for this paper and magazine writers to be ab and subsequent sub-divisions were adopt letter to have been written: There are it is as important for the nation to know solutely frank about what is going on. ed for administrative reasons, In too many rejections in this area Yes, the worst as it is for the nation to know prace time," said Sir Alfred, "the deter- or too few. He promised to produce let mination of the fitness of a recruit is ters written as the result of these teel-found from actual experience it is a the best. For one thing and we have
great stimulus for the men fighting in the held that the country they are fighting. for knows precisely what they are doing.
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him in B 11 That would be a factories is now turning out very delicate most improper proceeding 1-Sir. Alfred: | pises of machinery needed in the con-
Put him into B41:
struction of aeroplanes.
To
to appoint regular officers-As-presidents Regulation 908 mays that no man who printing press ecar by can do patriotic of the boards. The medical branch has hus, at any time been under treatment for service to his country by awakening the no veintion to the policy of the recruiting tuberculosis shall be taken into the Army, people to the fact that this way is just offiepra
All that the medical officers have Would you be surprised to know that beginning, and that every ounce of energy, to di is to reper on the physical conditie are boards which have consistently every revolution of America vast indur- tion of ach trai put before cheat and to ignored this? Would you like the trial washine, and, what is equally im-
him in a category.
names!-1 would. Medicine is not au exact seiner, like That would be a surprise to you and portant, every gallon of petrol will be engineering. It is not possible to express would indiente gross neglect Yes. needed to bring the war to a successfal in words or figures the opinion of u prac; Have you heard of such a case is his end, an titioner. The work involves a knowledge A junior medical officer, after examining of the daily life of the soldier. For in a man, said to the president of the medi stance, the opinion of a recruiting medical board: You're up against Sir Janies cal officer would be very much influenced Mackenzie jere, sir-meaning that the by the free whether the man was to be in a certificate of unfitness from a driver in the artillery or a private in thao specialist to which the president allowed for a specifié disability depends upon
the arm the man is joining, a
STRAIN ON THE DOCTORS. Whey war broke out men were rea cented in every town and nearly every village, and the recruits were sent to the local practitioner, This man cannot pos sibly know how much to allow or disallow for certain disabilities. The consequents was that a very large number of men were recruited whom in peace-time we should naver accept
The errors arose from want of knowledge of the Army and the daries of a soldier. Many of the differ- ences of opinion were quite légitimate. You have also to make allowance › for ignorance, for want of skill in detecting disabilitare, and for a cerinin ampant of negligence and for fatigue. The very best recruiting medical officer canto, ex- amine more than 40 recruits a day and thor is so big estimate the work is one
of incessant, strain."
Mr. Nield: You would think the ve mark improper 7-Yes, We do not fix standards of fitness for the Army. We interpret them Take vision, forex ample, in the ease of a nun for the artil Jery. The military people say : requin the man in do so and so, with or without glass! They tell us what they want, and we translate it into optical terms
DEAD
WORK ON AEROPLANES.
facture of aeroplane parts and aeroplane construction generally a
The effect of the war on the American pagazine, I believe, will be that certain kinds of advertising must necessarily be reduced. I am told in the case of the most widely read periodicals that nearly half she advertising comes from motor-
war, which has car companies. The proved the efficiency of motor transport Do you know of cases of men raised to an almost incredible degree, will make
you Trom 3 to general service within one a tremendous drain on the motor industry month --Very quick, 1 would have to of your country. The great bulk of the see the cases to judge whether it was output will have to be concentrated on proper, IN TWO MONTHS in vitably be cominanderred for the manu- Sve trucks. The automobile factories will Mr. Nield called attention to the case of a man who was attended by his doctor for internals alcers, and in spite of evi In the les oplane lies one great, hope of deure of this was called up, served on an Allied victory. The war has taught day, and was dead in owns that the agroplane cagine of the spring Sir Alfred Rough replied that it was that be replane engine of the gring *but added, "I am next autumn, so rapidly are developments very find t
ignorance, carelessness, or wary of knowledge on the part of the produced by the fierce competition of members of the medical boards, We down. When America has got her full stride in the war, as surely she will get it. it will be found that there will be a tremendous demand for chauffeurs. Eng- lend to day has nearly 100,000 nistor trucks in France, and is constantly send- ing more. Every one of these trucks must be manned by skilled drivers. If skilled chauffeurs can be sent to operate your trucks, it will be possible to release an equal number of men for the fighting line. It will mean the end of joy riding. England stopped this favourite outdoor sport a good while ago, and I am sure en America wakes up to the tremendous will do likewise
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When he was first Divector-General, Sir Alfred said, he tried to do something to eduente the doctors by setting up a com mon standard, and medical inspector went round to instruct the inspecting off cers. The system was fairly satisfactory but it by no means got rid of the differ-nos educate them."
If a cast of internal ulcer came before ences of opinion that existed. Then the Rystem fell into abeyance. When he re the medical board what would you have turned to the War Office, at the end of done? They ought to send the man into 1914, he set it up again: When the Derby hospital and lavi hit examined by ex group system was suggested he saw nnperts. You can't put him into a military opportunity of adopting a more orderly method, and centres, were established where men
Brigadier General A. Campbell Geddes, examined by medical were s
Director-General of Recruiting, stated boards,
that in August, 1914, the machinery broke WRONG DECISIUNK. Many men, Sir Alfred admitted, down owing to the strain imposed upon "were accepted who ought to have been it. In one month they received into the rejected. A great. who ought to have any were, rejected my ten times, the number of men for
passed. It was
which the recruiting machinery had been diffealt to get out of the minds of the designed-ia round figures, 500,000, realisation of what this war means she ductors that all men were not required to đụ thu samy duty in the Army and to get them to understand that any man who could do anything in civil life could do that thing also in the Aray
The Chairman Has the president any power in excess of the ordinary member if he disagrees with the general, finding If the board?-Sir Alred : I think that of the board he will say so.
FRAUTES AND 1,000,000 ERRORS,
In the spring of 1918 the Erst change was made, and it was a very dangerous I have a strong conviction that with one, which had led to endless difficulties peace will come a close federation of the since The Army was instructed to begin nations who are now fighting the great to discriminate between mest who came fighting for freedom. It will be the only forward they were asked to become insurance against the toerncy that made
thinking aching, a
thing they
armies of the sitceras perpetrated on common affair Men who registered in be made free for democracy. never intended to be the rest or he and the horrors that Duplication in attestation was a most innocens non-combatants. The world must London went off somewhere else and did
And the effect of his anging so is whất The general officer of the Divisionat again. In one sub-aren there were 53 or 34 men of the same name--William Command would determine what was to be done a t Supposing the said unfit and the president said "fit"-He ought to refer the matter
Iou civilian members
It is not a decision unless it is unan)- mous--I don't think there is any rule - laid down about that,
Smith, the commonest English name and AATCHI GIRLS PROTECTOR in Steppey South there were 33 Abraham Cohens, who would be identified only by MAN WHO ENDED PHOSSY JAW- changed after attestation... their addresse "Many addrezes Were
A revolution in the matchmaking tradi, saving the lives of endless girl workers all over the world, fies helsind: the knight- hood conferred on Bir Alexander II. Maguire of Liverpool
youus ar £15-4 TIME. When the Compulsion Act pasted and Mr. Sutton ( Labour member): Why He took over his office there were one brought up under the new Act and cords. There was no plan to put trade all his life The father, in fact, were he rejected, three or four times million errors in military recruiting se
right,
time.
In the early part of the atresta-
· 15.
Sir Alexander has been in the match
passed, some of them being even accepted for Class A --Sir Alfred could not say on period men were given forms marked was the inspirer of the mission which the Now acceptri, which were worth son neccssfully took up. From his father He had no experience of the netual work. of the medical bourds
nothing; they changed hands at £15 a Sir Alexander learned the ravages of the poisonous white phosphorus, then the Can you say why men have been We know now that classification cards main chemical ingredient in the match. fected by medical boards, re-examined by in 1916 were forged on a great scale and The match worker-usually a girl-got edical boards, re-examined by other that false classification cards were actual into contact with the phosphorus through boards, sent to specialista in the army for reports upon their condition; rejectedly printed a regular industry. On her hands and sometimes through: her taking charge at the War Office 1 found small half branch of a department deal ing with the question. Clerks were seat
On August 1st Inst they had a plan on which to work, and no fewer than six million entries on the books had.
on the specialists reports, and then taken in after all that I could not
Mr. Cochrane. Is it possible for asian
to be classified by the president alone tered about in all parts of the building"
Most emphatically not, it would be quite
contrary to the custom of the Service.
Colonel' Faber: Afen put in the lower been verified I say entries, not another, and sometimes, the disense ba?-
mouth. If there were any exposed spot in the teeth the poison began to work. First a tooth went, then one of the jaw bores got infected, then the rest of the jaw bones. The teeth having first gone, one of the jaw bones was taken out, then ing gone too far, all were taken out to categories are only taken for one reason ** because they are of use to the Army in The only way they could get at the try to save the patient. But the sufferer
root of things was same capacity 1-Yes; there are no lower the books a calling up notice and get the Sir Alexander got the consent of his
send everybody on nearly always died, gr
ON THEIR OWN"
men to tell the authorities all about them fellow match manufacturers to legislation Replying to Colonel · Gretton,
selves. There was no other way. One to prevent the use of white phosphorus. Alfred said that if a knotty question mass of the people they had never been Then, after getting the support of the arose the General Office Commanding to touch roughly, one million men leaders of all the other political parties,
able
he induced the Home Secretary; Mr. would write to the War Office for in The recruiting machine is in a pro- Herbert now Lord Gladstone to bring
entegories in peace time.
structions, but normally the
Sir
who had rejection forms.
the boards go on their own of attaining perfection, said Gen in the White Phosphorus Match Prohibi
There is no inspection by the War of the efficiency of the medical service Oh yes. The Director General himself inspects from time to time, and at pre sent a very large number of inspectors go round.
What is the arrangement for there moval of unsatisfactory medical officers A report by the General Officer Com manding-in-Chier.
MITSU BUSSAN KAISHA SKIN AND BLOOD DISEASES are virtually the same as last year
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Answering Mr.” Pringle," Sir Alfred said that the standards for the categories Mr. Pringle: Would a lowering of the standard be the explanation of the ac ceptance of men who had previously been rejected --I think you will find that the
eral Geddes
some
My tion Bill. Though it excited Only 45 B.A.M.C. officers were employ opposition the Bill passed into law. The ed in the 100 odd medical boards through good example soon spread, and now out the country. The rest were civilians, legislation against the use of white phos some with temporary commissions. He phorus is practically world-wide, and the thought the actual error in classification toll of death and painful disease has was rather under 0.5 (less than 1 of 1) ended. In silence the revolution caque, in per cent
It was found there was a good deal of the benefits of it. BROWNING DOPING."
doping, out of their ears....
“The total number of men who must, hà
S silence it has remained since, though thousands of workers are now enjoying
aven men with wolf running
dealt with under the re-examination Act was about a million, and up to Jano 14th about 420,000 were examined
(Continued at foot of next column.}.
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