PHYSICAL FITNESS
A SURPRISE OF THE WAR. *
Many people have been, surprised by tho very largo proportion of men weeded out by the Military Medical Boards as physically unfit for active service. , Among the most surprised is th© Minister of Defence (Sir James Allen), who remarked to a deputation to-day, that the largeness of the percentage- of rejects (about 60 per cent.) was impressed on him every day. '-'The first thing, we must do," he said- "is to improve the physical standard of tho young men." --.- .- . . ; -
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Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 13, 15 July 1918, Page 8
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86PHYSICAL FITNESS Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 13, 15 July 1918, Page 8
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