CAMP REJECTIONS.

Taranaki Daily News, 11 September 1917, Page 7

CAMP REJECTIONS.

SOME INTERESTING FIGURES. 'A return presented to the House of Representatives by Sir James Allen last week gave the following number of men who having passed the Medical Board, have entered cainp in New Zealand a 9 members of the various reinforcements have afterwards been discharged from camp as unfit for service:—Twenty-sec-ond Reinforcements, 2; Twenty-third Reinforcements, 8; Twenty-fourth Reinforcements, 31 j Twenty-fifth Reinforcements, 49; Twenty-sixth Reinforcements, 195; Twenty-seventh Reinforcements, 153; Twenty-eighth Reinforcements, 130. Twenty-ninth Reinforcements. 101; Thirtieth Reinforcements, 79; Thirty-first Reinforcements, 27; Thirty-second Reinforcements, 15; Thirty-third Reinforcements, 11; Thirty-fourth Reinforcements, 2; Thirty-fifth Reinforcements, 3; totai, 815. Sir James Allen explains that the high figures for the Twenty-sixth, Twen-ty-seventh, and Twenty-eighth Reinforcements were due to tho fact that about that time an alteration was made in the standard of examination at tho suggestion of the Imperial authorities. Since then we had reverted to our own methods, and the number discharged as unfit had been very largely reduced.