The problem of the milk-supply / [Frederick Lawson Dodd].

  • Dodd, F. Lawson (Frederick Lawson), 1868-
Date:
1904
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Credit: The problem of the milk-supply / [Frederick Lawson Dodd]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    selves for enlistment are found to be physically unfit for military service.’ According to this authority, ‘ the impairment of vigour and physique among the urban poor is easy to understand when we reflect that, in addition to their only being able to provide themselves with food msufficient in quantity and probably poor in quality, their poverty also entails un- healthy environment — e.g., defective housing, overcrowding, and insanitary surroundings.’ The Inspector-General of Recruiting, in his Report for 1902, expresses anxiety as to the future with regard to the gradual deterioration of the physique of the working classes, from whom the bulk of recruits must always be drawn. The physical standard for enlistment into a line regiment is by no means a high one, yet during the decennial period 1893-1902, of 679,703 men offering themselves for service, 234,914 were rejected as physically unfit. It is true that the rate of rejection decreased from 40 per cent, in the first year of the period named to 30 per cent, in the last; but against this we have the fact that the numbers of those rejected within three months after enlistment, as well as of those breaking down before the first two years of service is completed, have both considerably increased. Adding together all
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