The fit have had to be separated from the unfit. Consequently we have been taking an inventory of our physical assets, with results that have been amazing. From 50 to 75 per cent of our volunteers, draftees and conscripts have been found physically unfit for military service, and these have been for the most part the victims of preventable and curable diseases and physical defects. Fifty thousand were rejected from your first draft on account of tuberculosis. These had all been engaged in active pursuits, the vast majority having no knowledge of the danger that was lurking within them. Government reports show that 66 per cent of the first million volunteers for the army and navy were rejected as physically unfit. It is true that the physical requirements were high, and were subsequently relaxed, yet they were not higher than they should be to ensure the physical soundness that our people are entitled to, and that in the interests of the nations should be maintained, whether it be for military or civil service. In this connection, it is interesting to note that similar results are being found among the school children where a complete physical examination is made on entering the schools. Here approximately 50 per cent are found defective and have defects of such a character as to require them to be referred to their family physician or some hospital clinic for correction. To add to this tragedy which these examinations reveal of pre-war conditions, we find that there have been approximately seven millions of those