§ Colonel DAYasked the Secretary of State for War if he will give the House figures showing the number of recruits for His Majesty's Forces who presented themselves for enrolment during the year 1924, but were rejected as physically unfit to serve, for each town with a population of 100,000 or more?
§ Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANSI regret that the particulars asked for by the hon. Member are not available. I have, however, had prepared a table showing, by recruiting zones, the number of recruits who were rejected as physically unfit for military service during the recruiting year October, 1923, to September, 1924:
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Recruiting Zone. Number. West Surrey … 221 East Kent … 461 Royal Fusiliers … 910 Norfolk … 339 Suffolk and Cambs. … 246 Beds., Herts. and Hunts. … 266 East Surrey … 515 Sussex … 776 Essex … 353 Northampton … 355
Recruiting Zone. Number. West Kent … … 962 Middlesex … … 502 Omagh … … 218 Belfast … … 361 Armagh … … 249 London … … 12,813 Northumberland … … 853 Lincolnshire … … 337 West Riding … … 1,757 Sheffield City … … 1,698 East Riding … … 528 Leicestershire … … 523 North Riding … … 633 Staffordshire … … 1,075 Wolverhampton City … … 490 Derbyshire … … 317 Nottinghamshire … … 99 Durham … … 282 Lothians … … 84 Ayrshire … … 187 Scottish Border … … 84 Lanarkshire … … 808 Black Watch … … 685 Seaforth … … 54 Gordon … … 271 Cameron … … 50 Argyll … … 158 Edinburgh … … 759 Glasgow … … 3,641 Warwickshire … … 314 Birmingham City … … 1,408 Devonshire … … 812 Somerset … … 282 Gloucestershire … … 2,147 Worcestershire … … 317 Cornwall … … 174 Hampshire … … 995 Dorsetshire … … 122 Oxford and Bucks. … … 313 Berkshire … … 222 Wiltshire … … 195 Lancaster … … 159 Liverpool … … 1,283 Bury … … 516 Cheshire … … 454 North Wales … … 272 Welsh Border … … 198 East Lancashire … … 442 Border … … 221 South Lancashire … … 454 South Wales … … 1,090 Preston … … 240 Shropshire … … 343 Manchester … … 1,321 Jersey … … 25 Guernsey … … 6 Total … … 49,245