EXAMINATION OF RECRUITS.
Discussing the question of the reexamination of the medically rejected and also of men discharged from the army early in the war as permanently until, the medical correspondent of the Lpndon Times says that in the early days of "the war medical examination of recruits was to a deplorable extent a political business. Those who desired to save the' voluntary system desired to see as few men as possible rejected. Towards the end of the Derby campaign medical examination passed through a rapid degeneration until in the last stage of all it practically ceased to exist. The next stage was the exact reverse of this. The politicians who had failed to save the voluntary system now began to defeat the compulsory’system by doing all in their power to get men axempted and rejected.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1714, 19 May 1917, Page 4
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136EXAMINATION OF RECRUITS. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1714, 19 May 1917, Page 4
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