| Show BOARDS ARE MORE EFFICIENT This hl I Is s Explanation Given by British f Officer of Acceptance foi Service 1 of Men O Once Rejected I In a 4 recent Investigation by n Ii com corn from the hon house e of ot commons common ken Gen Sir Alfred Keogh director general genera of t the British army array medical service de- de dared Glared that while white the department had j been laboring under difficulties imposed im im- posed by the lack of ot experienced army Examiners he was aware of no In the examination of ot men under un un- der iler the military service review o ot of exceptions act When the war broke out men were taken for tor medical examination to Joeal local local lo lo- cal eal practitioners who could not pos poe know the requirements of ot the service he sold Bald and the consequence was that a large Jorge number of ot men was recruited whom the authorities would not Lot have thought of ot considering in peace times Umes With such a corps of ot examiners Alfred Altred declared It was 08 Impossible to attain a common standard and this explained the fact tact that frequently men rejected by one board were accepted by another Many hinny men were passed passed pass pass- ed who ought not to have hove been pass pass- ed ed he admitted but hut on the other hand a great number of ot men were rejected who ought to have been passed pass pass- ed d under r the Hie category system It was very Tery difficult to get the medical practitioners loners to understand that a man who could do anything in civil life Ute could do Aa that thing l In the army The fact that the proportion of ot men passed by later Inter boards after having been rejected by examiners at the be- be ginning of ot the war steadily has line Increased increased In in- creased during the war Sir Alfred attributed attributed at at- to the Increased efficiency of the boards but vehemently denied that there had bad been any lowering of ot the standard for tor acceptance |
