| Description Of Item | Form completed by doctors at the request of the SMSEC, which was set up by the Scottish Committee of the British Medical Association in order to manage shortages of doctors in wartime.
This form contains the following information:
Not Commissioned (Registration)
Qualifications: MA, MD, MRCPEdin
Address: 6 Glengyle Terrace
City/Town: Edinburgh
Present work: Private and Consulting Practice; C. Factory Surgeon; Lecturer
Age in 1916: 45
Additional information: [Written next to Group B 'Part-time home military work':] in Edinburgh only. [Group B 'Locum Tenens' originally selected but then crossed out by pracitioner. Next to Group B 'Locum Tenens' and 'Part-time home civil work':] (No Insurance or Club work, and preferably no midwifery) in Edinburgh only. [Statement at bottom of page edited to read:] 'This offer is subject to the condition that such service shall not require me to leave my present work.' [Written at bottom of page:] Before I was 45 I offered my serivces to the War Office, but they were not wanted. [Letters attached to form] |