Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 271, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 December 1917 — The Duties Of The Medical Advisory Boards [ARTICLE]

The Duties Of The Medical Advisory Boards

The duties of Drs. English, Wash"burn and Kresler, members of the medical advisory board of the county during the examination of the men called by draft about whose fitness on ~ the j first- examination there may be a doubt, according to letters being mailed out by the Provost Marshall of the United States, will be: ’ ' “Methods of physical examination,” the letter of the Provost Marshall of the United States says, have heretofore not been satisfactory. The new regulations address themselves to this fault and provide a vßry systematic method for removing it. A preliminary examination is to be made by an examining physician of the local board and thus, those obviously physically disqualified will be eliminated from the lists. But, before the local board arrives at a decision as to the physical qualifications of any registrant about whose qualifications there is any doubt, the physical examination is to be conducted by experts in the most exhaustive manner possible. To this end the new regulations .provide for the erection of Medical Advisory Boards throughout the United States in such manner, and serving such districts, as may be dictated by the hospital and railroad communications and by the very important consideration of reaching to a minimum the cost to the nation that will be incurred by the necessity of sending registrants before such boards for examination.”