| Description Of Item | The forms were issued by the Scottish Medical Service Emergency Committee. A registration form was to be filled out by a practitioner not holding a commission and an intimation form by or on behalf of a practitioner on service. Both forms were supposed to be submitted before 31st December 1915. The intimation forms are not dated and a number of the registration forms were not submitted on time and date from 1916 (see Currie p53). The packets also included some correspondence where they related to the submission of a form or were attached to same. The forms were scored through with blue pencil which might mean that they had been processed and the information transferred elsewhere. In some instances there are duplicate forms, particularly in the case of intimation forms where more than one person submitted a form for the same person. The forms appear to have been kept together alphabetically by initial of surname but the original arrangement by packet has not been maintained.
The registration form gives:
- doctor's name
- address (given as work or home)
- qualifications
- present work (whether general practitioner, panel or non-panel; consultant; whole time officer (public health officer, tuberculosis officer, hospital resident, pathologist etc)
- age as at 1 January 1916
- group A, B or C (under 45, 45-55 or 56 and upwards)
- the service the doctor was prepared to render (if under 45 this was restricted to lieutenant in the RAMC)
The intimation form gives:
- doctor's name
- address (given as work or home)
- rank in the army or navy
There are blank examples of the forms at SMC/4/1/19-20. |