HC Deb 25 April 1899 vol 70 c517
COLONEL DALBIAC

I beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for War, if he will state the number of recruits rejected during the past year on account of bad teeth, who were in every other respect fully up to the required standard?

THE FINANCIAL SECRETARY TO THE WAR OFFICE (Mr. POWELL WILLIAMS, Birmingham, S.)

1,767 recruits were rejected in the year 1898 under the heading "Loss or decay of litany teeth."