MEDICAL TESTS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2482, 8 June 1915, Page 6

MEDICAL TESTS

re FEW REJECTS IN THE WAIKATO. In view of the remarkably heavy percentages of rejections of recruits on medical grounds reported_ in Canterbury and Otago, special interest attaches to the figures for the Waikato. An official report presented to Mr. G. Allen last weeK gave the general average of rejections in the Dominion as 25 per cent. According to the figures supplied to the "Waikato Times,' for the local No. 4 Area Group the posiin tion there from the beginning of the of war up to the end of last month is as ig follows:—Provided for Main Expediy, tionarv Force, 550; provided for Roinr. forcements, 698; total men provided, 32 1248. Altogether (says the "Times") iy 1523 men have been medically examined io by the medical officers in the Group, of Of these 82 were rejected as medically re unfit, 1248 have gone to the front, 170 are awaiting orders to' proceed, and the balance (23) represents the men who have registered and failed to go after being accepted. These figures give the proportion of 3- rejects for the Waikato as only 5} per so cent., as against the general average of 25 per cent. In Auckland City on Friday 103 men • wero presented for examination, and 69 were passed for active service. AN ASHBURTON CASE. n- Savs the Ashburton "Guardian":— at "An instance of the farcical nature of y- the standard set by some doctors is vouched for by a farmer in the Ashburton County, who informs us that a 0. relative of his, a husky young man of n- 28. recently walked, in one day, 36 miles to a recruiting officer, and was rejected by the doctor, who told him .' n he would never be able to stand a 10ln mile march becauso ho had flat feot! The man has since gone to Sydney, I' wliero he passed the test without the slightest difficulty." 1. — V .. Sa,jaQM._,&t?reiieeflerß_sf!!L/HafflzoL'\