| Description Of Item | The correspondence concerns the prevention of men with tuberculosis from being recruited. Includes a draft letter from Philip suggesting that soldiers with suspected tuberculosis should be referred to a Royal Army Medical Corps officer with specialist experience; a memorandum in reply to letter from the Secretary of State for War to Lord Glenconner, National Association for the Prevention of Tuberculosis, with particulars of cases of tubercular recruits; and a response from the War Office enclosing Army Council Instruction 908 on the enlistment of men who have suffered from tubercular disease. |