Mr. HANCOCKasked the Under-Secretary of State for War the number of recruits for His Majesty's Forces who presented themselves for enrolment during the year 1922, but were rejected as physically unfit to serve for each town with a population of 100,000 or more?
Lieut.-Colonel, GUINNESSI regret that I am unable to give the information requested in a form distinguishing particular towns, but the numbers of recruits who presented themselves in each county recruiting zone in Great Britain for enlistment in the Regular Army during 1922 and the numbers rejected as physically and medically unfit to serve, were as follows:
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Recruiting Zone. Male Population. Numbers Presenting themselves for enlistment. Numbers rejected by Recruiting Officers and Recruiters for physical reasons. Numbers rejected by Medical Officers. West Surrey … … … 213,377 597 97 229 East Kent … … … 215,751 1,213 218 277 Royal Fusiliers … … … 179,376 1,263 487 441 Norfolk … … … 239,646 948 89 395 Suffolk … … … 292,790 673 59 155 Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire and Huntingdonshire. 280,761 587 — 224 East Surrey … … … 538,182 1,565 94 677 Nunsex … … … 320,187 1,542 785 246 Essex … … … 344,967 979 38 467 Northampton … … … 168,614 726 276 107 West Kent … … … 289,998 1,874 808 266 Middlesex … … … 399,453 1,080 81 400 Northumberland … … … 368,040 2,808 881 288 Lincolnshire … … … 296,678 680 176 92 West Riding (including Sheffield) … 1,569,117 5,123 1,439 1,098 East Riding … … … 223,426 560 59 52 Leicestershire … … … 243,667 913 392 214 North Riding … … … 222,862 663 110 124 Staffordshire (including Wolverhampton). 663,162 2,810 1,063 448 Derbyshire … … … 353,029 860 211 104 Nottingham … … … 307,655 1,409 3 174 Durham … … … 740,038 1,835 1 600 Lothians … … … 124,266 442 47 124 Ayrshire … … … 145,274 337 70 95 Scottish Border … … … 100,200 310 115 28 Lanarkshire … … … 248,264 1,295 592 424 Black Watch … … … 317,135 1,719 412 444 Seaforth … … … 113,443 258 30 29 Gordon … … … 196,872 787 191 229 Cameron … … … 42,440 117 23 14 Argyll … … … 365,401 1,215 390 181 Edinburgh … … … 182,417 1,516 172 499 Glasgow … … … 473,127 4,343 1,050 2,224 Warwickshire (including Birmingham) 664,140 4,833 848 2,062 Devonshire … … … 332,026 1,547 562 487 Somerset … … … 214,242 1,014 146 269 Gloucester … … … 353,106 3,829 2,155 750 Worcester … … … 192,961 821 41 264 Cornwall … … … 147,517 336 36 147 Hampshire … … … 480,579 2,595 741 637 Dorset … … … 108,828 368 23 84 Oxford and Bucks … … … 204,364 642 207 194 Berkshire … … … 140,657 647 132 185 Wiltshire … … … 144,951 626 236 184 Lancaster … … … 102,318 408 53 106 Liverpool … … … 549,725 3,297 1,222 715 Bury … … … 140,408 827 53 329 Cheshire … … … 475,935 1,915 462 571 North Wales … … … 257,974 644 131 344 Welsh Border … … … 303,049 946 96 247 East Lancashire … … … 263,294 1,174 308 304 Border … … … 169,908 520 225 71 South Lancashire … … … 104,286 676 154 241 South Wales … … … 769,598 1,939 736 216 Preston … … … 310,206 1,133 400 143 Shropshire … … … 173,070 802 263 227 Manchester … … … 840,518 2,340 227 553 London … … … 2,141,505 21,387 7,765 6,368 Guernsey … … … 18,926 62 3 25 Jersey … … … 22,338 64 18 18