| Description Of Item | The volume contains printed pro-forma letters of excuse. The letters were torn out and given to the practitioner and the stubs left in the volume. Up to no.36 most of the stubs contain information about the practitioner but a further 12 stubs remain after that with no details so it is not known if they were issued. The letter gave the doctor's name and address and the date until which the letter was valid and had the wording 'The Scottish Medical Service Emergency Committee is of the opinion that it is in the meantime undesirable in the public interest to call on the above-mentioned medical practitioner to undertake Military Service'. |