THE MEN UNFIT

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2744, 12 April 1916, Page 6

THE MEN UNFIT

MANY-CAUSES

TOWN HALL EXAMINATIONS

RESULTS TABULATED

Dr. H. A. de Lautour, one of the doctors who examine recruits at the Toivn Hall, has. compiled a list of causes of tho rejection of recruits and causes of recruits being deferred as temporarily unfit home recruits, of course, have two or more causes of rejection. The list follows and it concerns Town Hall recruiting from October 23, 1915, till April 1, Wi6:TT £?" se ' Bej. Def. Under age •. 2 1 Over age \ ".'.' 5 _ Under height 6 — Under chest „"; 10 g Head or Neck. Mental, neurasthenia 2 — Visiou (colour blind) 2(i » . Hearing, speech 6 — Throat, laryngitis — j Chest. Lungs, asthma, . bronchitis, pleurisy 4 Tuberculosis .1 _ Miners' disease 1 _ Heart and circulation 11 — Varicose veins 7 ' 7 Abdomen. Gastritis 1 _ Kidney 1 _ Hernia, various 6 28 Haemorrhoids 1 — Generative Organs. Testis Cryptorchial — 1 Variocele 5 14 , Epilepsy 2 — Graves Disease 1 Diabetes i 1 — Alcoholism 2 — Venereal diseases 1 1 Tumours (cystic) — 1 Disease of skin—Eczema ' 1 — Psoriasis '....'. — 1 Spinal column 2 — Upper extremity ; 4 — . Lower extremity 21 4 \ Total causes 130 67 The total number of recruits examined was 700. The rejected numbered 101 (14i42 per cent.); 59 (8.12 per cent.) were deferred; and 540 (77.14 per cent.) were passed as fit. Under a heading "Not Causes for Rejection, but Cases Worth Recording," the following are noted:— • Per , Cent. No mark of vaccination or ' not vaccinated 109 15.56 Teeth require attention (325 examined up to Jan. 13) ... 93 25.52 ; Previously operated on for appendicitis .: .'....' 11' • 1.57 Previously operated on for hernia 9 • 1.28 Previously operated on for varicose veins 8 0.42 Previously operated on for varicocele ; 5 0.71 Previously operated on for abdominal section .;... 2 0.23 Following is a monthly return of recruits examined at the Town Hall:— Date. Days. Ex'd. Eej. Def. Pit. Oct. 23-28 5 , 51 7 3 41 Nov. 5-30 20 '104 9 3 92 Dec. 1-31 23 116 16 3 97 Jan. 4-31 25 156 23 15 118 Feb. 1-29 21 111 24 13 74 M'h 1-Ap'l - 27 162 22 22 JIB Totals ... 12J 700 101 59 540 The daily averages wore:— Ex'd. Kej. Def. Fit. October 10.2 1.4 0.6 8.2 November ' ...... 5.2 0.45 . 0.15 4.1 December 5.04 0.69 0.13 4.13 January G. 24 0.92 0.6 4.72 February ' 4.95 1 0.54 3.08 March ..' 6.0 0.81 0.-48 4.48 Average nearly 6 months 6.25 0.87 .0.41.' 4.45 .The total daily averages wore:—Examined, 5.50; rejected, .0.82; deferred, 0.47; fit, 4.39.