JUNE 1.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1499

(2) The examination will be conducted in accordance with G.A. Form C.-15,
and the original and duplicate copies of that form completed as required shall be
forwarded by the President of the Medical Board to the Controller of Civil Aviation,
Defence, Wellington.
Applications for copies of this form should be made to the Controller of Civil
Aviation.

General Examination.

18. This examination will be based on the following requirements :—
    The applicant must have the complete use of his four limbs, must not be com-
    pletely deprived of the use of either eye, and must be free from any active or latent,
    acute or chronic, medical or surgical, disability or infection. He must be free
    from any injury or wound which would entail any degree of functional incapacity
    which might interfere with the safe handling of aircraft at any altitude, even in
    the case of prolonged or difficult flight. He must be completely free from hernia,
    must not suffer from any detectable sensory lesion, and must be free from a history
    of morbid mental or nervous trouble.

Special Examination.

19. This examination will be based on the following requirements of mental
    and physical fitness :—
    (a) The applicant will be questioned concerning his family and personal
    history.
    (b) Examination of the Nervous System.—The examination of the nervous
    system of the applicant shall comprise a full inquiry into the family
    and personal history. The information gathered shall be given in a
    statement made and signed by the applicant and accompanied, if
    possible, by a certificate in regard especially to losses of consciousness,
    fits and convulsions of all kinds, from the applicant’s ordinary
    medical adviser or a responsible person who has known him for a long
    time. This statement and this certificate must be deemed satisfactory
    by the examining medical officer.
    (i) The applicant must not present any mental or trophic impair-
    ment, pathological tremor, or presumptive evidence of latent epilepsy.
    Motility, sensibility, tendinous, cutaneous, and pupillary reflexes,
    co-ordination of movements, and cerebellar functions must be normal.
    An exception may be made for local peripheral trouble due to acci-
    dental section of a nerve branch.
    (ii) Fractures of the cranium involving the internal table of the
    cranium box, even without apparent impairment, will entail temporary
    unfitness during a period of two years from the date of the fracture.
    (iii) Any presumed nervous syphilis will entail rejection, unless
    the non-existence of such an impairment is proved by an examination
    of the blood and an examination of the cerebro-spinal fluid, made
    with the consent of the applicant.
    (c) Pilots of aircraft carrying passengers or goods for hire or reward and
    navigators may not enter upon their duties before nineteen or after
    forty-five years of age.
    (d) General Surgical Examination.—The applicant must neither suffer from
    any wound or injury, nor have undergone any operation, nor possess
    any abnormality, congenital or acquired, which might interfere with
    the safe handling of aircraft at any altitude, even in the case of
    prolonged or difficult flight.
    (i) Palpation of the abdomen and abdominal viscera, particularly
    the pyloric, vesicular, duodenal and appendicular regions, whenever it
    reveals any swelling or distinct pain, must be completed by a radio-
    scopic and radiographic examination.
    (ii) Any surgical intervention in the biliary passages or the diges-
    tive tube, except appendicitis, involving a total or partial excision or a
    diversion of one of these organs, any anatomical lesion in the walls
    of any part whatever of the digestive tube, any stricture of its calibre,
    any calculus or foreign body, any peritoneal lesion established by
    clinical or laboratory examination will entail rejection. Exception
    may be made for spasmodic strictures not accompanied by other
    trouble and for ptoses compensated by a good abdominal musculature.
    (iii) Diseases of the liver (including those of the biliary passages)
    and of the pancreas will in cases where it is deemed necessary be
    verified by laboratory examination, particularly by radiography as
    well as by an examination of the blood and of the urine, and will
    entail rejection only if they afford indication of the existence of a
    calculus, tumour, or lesion involving a persistent impairment of
    function of these organs.
    (e) General Medical Examination.—The applicant must not suffer from any
    disease or disability which renders him liable suddenly to become
    incompetent in the management of aircraft. His muscular power
    must be adequate for the handling of the types of aircraft he will
    have to pilot or the apparatus he is to use.
    (i) He must not have any signs of aneurism of the large arterial
    trunks, nor have any cardiac lesion, even if well compensated ; the
    heart must be normal, with normal function, and only respiratory
    arrhythmia, increase of pulse rate from excitement or exercise, and a
    general slow pulse not associated with auriculo-ventricular dissociation
    will be allowed.
    (ii) The applicant must not suffer from any acute disability of
    the lungs, nor possess any cicatricial lesion of the lungs, and must
    be free from tuberculosis capable of being diagnosed by the usual
    clinical methods, from tracheo-bronchial disease of the glands and
    from pulmonary emphysema, even if slight. In addition, each
    examination shall include a radioscopic record in doubtful clinic
    cases.