HEALTH OF RECRUITS.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume V, Issue 1540, 20 January 1919, Page 8

HEALTH OF RECRUITS.

MEDICAL BOARDS' WORK.

SOME INTERESTING STATISTICS

[Special to The 3un.]

WELLINGTON, January 19. Special statistics prepared by the medical branch of the • Defence Department show Ihe medical status of recruits examined by medical boards during the period covered by the First Division ballots. The figures cover volunteers as well as balloted men, and include some Second Division men who offered themselves for service. They show the results of first examinations, and some re-examina-tions, but do not cover subsequent rejections from camp, or changes in classification, ordered by the C2 Rc-examination Board. They present a margin of error, therefore, but they are of general interest. The total number of men examined during the period, according to the medical boards' figures, was 71,177. These men were classified as follow:

Causes of Rejection. Figures showing the causes of rejection give the following details: ill 3 2 s. s p ■ 5 a < £ u 5 Under chest measurement .. .. 576 85 77 141 Venereal disease 30 50 92 54 Tubercle of lung 124 495 197 138 Defective vision 978 1274 711 594 Diseases of heart 132G 3733 1619 1451

MKDICAL STATUS 01 ; niiCRUlTS. Military district. A. HI. B2. CI. CZ 1). Total. Auckland . 0,767 GO 303 753 0,047 274 18,113 Wellington . - 8,!>10 27a 771 692 12.305 1,561 21,601 Canterbury . . 5,112 205 300 467 0..1 13 505 16,623 in i ■• .. , ,. 4,103 108 287 349 6,001 203 11,811 Totals 25,383 ret 1.011 2 ,261 38,5(6 2,603 71,177