The application of the Pulheems system of medical classification to the Army : part I- medical, part II- administrative / by command of the Army Council.

Date:
1947
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Credit: The application of the Pulheems system of medical classification to the Army : part I- medical, part II- administrative / by command of the Army Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    M8. Permanently unfit for military service, by reason of low mental capacity. In the case of such men, consideration must be given to the need for reporting the case to the Board of Control, in accordance with existing Army Council Instructions. Factors to be considered: Emotional Fitness. S1. Not in use. 52. Applies to men whose emotional stability is regarded by the medical officer (and by the Personnel Selection Officer, when concerned in the assess- ment) as of normal or of above normal degree, in terms of fitness to withstand emotional stresses of the various kinds to be met in Army life; or men who, having been considered of doubtful S2 assessment by a medical officer or a personnel selection officer, have been referred to the psychiatrist and assessed by him as up to normal emotional stability. Such men are fit for full combatant service in any part of the world. 53. Men of insufficient emotional stability to withstand the full stresses of Army life under battle conditions, but who are capable of such services_in any part of the world as will not expose them to the severest stresses. Such men are likely to have some significant history of emotional instability or of psychiatric illness, but their present adjustment is sufficiently good to allow of restricted service in any part of the world. 54. Not in use. 55. Not in use. 56. Men of the degree of emotional instability defined under $3, but ee by reason of their limited stability, for service in a tropical climate. Such men are likely to be few, but S6 may be necessary, e.g. (i) where a psychiatric disa- bility was originally precipitated by emotional or physical factors peculiar to a tropical environment, or (ii) where, in a neurosis, there are predominant somatic symptoms of such a nature as to become more incapacitating under tropical conditions. | S57. Men with emotional stability limited Be psychiatric or psychosomatic illness to such an extent that they are only capable of useful military service under such conditions as prevail in the United Kingdom. S8. Permanently unfit for military service, by reason of emotional instability. 20. Degree 7 in Relation to Postings Overseas Personnel assessed 7 under U, L or H, will normally be employed in the United Kingdom but may be employed overseas, when the disability causing the downgrading to 7 is not of sufficient constitutional or pathological severity to warrant the lowering of the P assessment also to 7. It will therefore be apparent that posting overseas will depend primarily on the assessment under P, M and S, and UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES 21