MEDICALLY UNFIT
A STEADY DECREASE. (By 'telegraph.—Press Association). WELLINGTON, Thursday. The following is an extract from a letter just received from the DeputyDirector of Medical Services with the New Zealand Expeditionary Force, dated London, January 30:—"It is gratifying to know that the numb«r of medically unfit men arriving from New Zealand is steadily decreasing, and that, with more stringent examination lieiore embarkation, this number will be reduced to a minimum. The high standard of medical fitness, insisted on for all troops in Frence necessitates extreme caie and thoroughness on the part of medical officers. Formerly, many rejections of men on arrival from overseas were from dental causes, but, owing to the splendid work of tile staff the men now going forward are dentally as well as physically fit."
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Waikato Times, Volume 88, Issue 13448, 29 March 1917, Page 5
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