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Medical Categories


David Filsell

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I am currently researching an officer's medical records and need some help with terms/abbreviations used by his Medical Boards at various dates

1 Unfit G.S. (gunshot?)

2 Unfit H.& S.

3 Unfit H.S. & S.D.

4 Unfit Category A1

5 Fit Category C.I. P.a.till

6 M.B. dy

7 Unfit A

8 Unfit A & B

I realsise that some of these are duplications/varients. But what where categories A B and C or where can I find them please. Finally was there a particular abreviation used for "war neurosis", "neurasthenia" or "shell-shock". Medics seem to have used all of these terms although by 1917 the general term "war neurosis" seems the most general and seems to have covered all types of such

conditions

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David

The medical categories were published as Army Council Instructions.

There were some changes to what each of the categories meant at various times during the war.

In May 1916 for example,

A: The man was fit for General Service

B: Fit for service overseas but in a labour unit or on sedentary work.

C: Fit for service at home only

D: Temporarily unfit for A, B or C but likely to become fit within 6 months.

These classes were further split ie.g. B (i), B (ii) and B (iii).

In 1917 a man whose medical board found him C (i) was almost certainly considered fit only for Home Service.

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