HC Deb 25 March 1903 vol 120 c171
MR. WEIR (ROSS and Cromarty)

I beg to ask the Secretary to the Admiralty will he state the number of recruits for the Navy who were rejected in 1902 on account of bad teeth.

THE SECRETARY TO THE ADMIRALTY (Mr. ARNOLD-FORSTER,) Belfast, W.

The statistics in the possession of the Admiralty do not enable me to give exact figures on this particular point, but it is estimated that at least one recruit in every ten is rejected on account of bad teeth.