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Show Many Officers of Medical Reserve Corps Removed From the declaration of war to February 23, the Surgeon General of the Army has removed 1,050 officers of the Medical Reserve Corps. In the following table the reason assigned for discharge does not isolate under "inaptitude for the service" all those whose dismissal was in considerable degree due to inefficiency or incompetency, incom-petency, since these reasons had weight in many cases otherwise classified. Discharged for physical disability, 411; inaptitude for the service, 154; to Join other branches, 306; domestic domes-tic difficulties, 59; resignation, 88; needed by communities, hospitals, schools, 32. During the same period there have been 2,265 promotions, Including Includ-ing some officers promoted more than once. |