HC Deb 17 October 1939 vol 352 c712W
Mr. McGovern

asked the Minister of Labour whether he is aware that Mr. Arthur Jamieson, Redcliffe, Burnside, Glasgow, who is 21 years of age, has been passed for military service as an A 1 Grade by a medical board; that the members of the board only looked at him in a casual manner and failed to subject him to a proper examination; that two specialists, a Royal Army Medical Corps captain, who is also a medical man with Boer War and Great War experience, and seven other doctors certify this man as completely unfit and suffering from fibrositis and arthritis of both shoulder joints and granular pharyngitis and recurrent sore throats of a serious kind; that this man's life would be endangered by training and service; and whether he will order an immediate investigation into this man's medical history and also the failure of the medical board to go into his medical history and give him a proper examination?

Mr. E. Brown

I am making inquiries and will communicate with the hon. Member as soon as possible.