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Show M CLflSSlFIGATlOiy OF 01FIESPiie Revised Instruction to Medical Med-ical Advisory Boards Prepared Pre-pared to Guard Health. WASHINGTON, March 7. Reclassification Reclassifi-cation according to physical condition of the men called in the next army draft Is provided in revised instructions for medical medi-cal boards which are being sent to the local boards throughout the country. The new regulations, made public tonight, require re-quire that every man summoned before the board shall be placed In one of the following four classes: (a) Acceptable for general military service. ser-vice. (b) Acceptable for general military service after being cured of remedial defects. de-fects. (c) Acceptable for special or limited military service in a specified capacity or occupation. (d) " Rejected and exempted from military mili-tary service. It is the intention of the provost marshal mar-shal general to provide later for the further fur-ther investigation and classification of the men acceptable for limited or special service, so that record may be made of the sort of work each of these men may be assigned to do without endangering his health. Under the new regulations many ailments ail-ments and defects which gained exemption exemp-tion of drafted men in the past now will result only in their being listed in group "B." Such men, if they .choose, will be given the privilege of securing the services ser-vices nf the'r family phvsicians In the effort to remove the defect, but if they have not availed themselves of this privilege privi-lege within a specified time they will he called into military service and ordered to a cantonment bfcse hospital, a reconstruction recon-struction hospital, or to a civic lio.-pltnl as may be designated by the suigeon general. |