THE TERRITORIALS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 148, 15 August 1911, Page 8

THE TERRITORIALS.

MEDICAL INSPECTION IN HOTELS. AN OBJECTION. In Saturday’s issue of the Hawcra “Star" appears the following passage from the paper’s Kaponga. correspondent;— “Tiicrc was a. good muster of you tins on the occasion of the medical examination of same recently, under the provisions of the now Defence Act, Very few, it is understood, failing to come up to the requisite standard. In connection with tno exception taken !>y a good many persons to too local hotel Doing used as tno place for examination, I have ))son handed the following communication for publication, being the reply Iron; the Minister of Defence to a protest forwarded him v, sth regard to the matter:—-T have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your telegram of the Jst inst., re medical examination of ’territorials being carried out in the hotel at Kaponga, and to inform you that came is much regretted. Stops have been taken to prevent the recurrence of such nracticcs.’ ” As a matter of fact, great care has been exercised to keep the inspection out of hotels, and out of forty examining stations at only two were hotels chosen as places of examination. In both these cases the cnoice was unavoidable. For medical examination it is highly desirable to have at feast two separate' rooms, and these cannot always be procured outside a hotel. It is to be understood, further, that the use of a hotel for medical examination does not create the hotel the headquarters for all time.