INCREASING FITNESS
IKEED FOR OARE AND TIIOROUGHj NESS. ' I The following is, an oxtraofc from a 'letter received.by General Hohdorson, Director of Xow Zealand's Military * Medical Services, from Cblonel Parkos, 'Chief of tho Medical ■ Services of the , Expeditionary Forties, London, under idate January 30:— i "It is gratifying to note that tho J number of medically unfit is etcadily decreasing, and wiih a moro stringent i examination before' oinbarkation this I number would be reduced to a minimum. • Tho high stai dard of medical , fitness insisted upon for all troops in i Franco necessitates extreme caro and 1 thoroughness on tho part of our medi'onl officers. Formerly many rejections ion arrival from overseas ivero, from ,clbntal causes, tut owing to tho "splendid work of tho stuff,- the men aro 'now going forward dentally as well as 'physically fit."
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3040, 29 March 1917, Page 5
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138INCREASING FITNESS Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3040, 29 March 1917, Page 5
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