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As regards the Militiamen called up under the new Military Training Act. a day spent as interviewing officer attached to a medical board in a West London suburb enables one to form, an idea writes Major B. T. Reynolds in the Spectator. I saw some 50 men varying from public school boys through various grades of skilled worker to milk roundsmen window cleaners and the like —a fair sample of those who will be coming up for training next month. The board graded them I. 11. 11l and IV in roder of fitness. The medical examination appeared to be very thorough and the doctors were delighted' with the results. The men I saw struck be as a very good lot physically. The figures for the firs* 17,865 Militiamen examined throughout Britain have been published by the Ministry of Labour As many as 84.5 per cent, were grade I. 8.8 per cent, grade II '1.4 per cent grade 111. and 2.3 per cent, grade IV These figures can be compared with the report of the wartime Ministry of National Service working to the same medical standards in 1917-1918—36 per cent, grade I. 23 per cent, grade 11. .31 per cent, grade 111. and 10 per cent, grade IV. There is cause for legitimate satisfaction here.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23883, 10 August 1939, Page 17
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