DOCTORS AND RECRUITING.
[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:1 SIR,—I have read with much interest your article in the Spectator of September 5th on the delay in dealing with the numbers of recruits now coming forward, and would strongly endorse what you say about the desirability of employing local doctors to examine. I am a medical man, the bulk of whose work consists in examining applicants for insurance, appointments, &c., and, being over age for other service, I wrote to the War Office a month ago offering my gratuitous services to examine recruits. Getting no reply, I called at the War Office, was thanked for my offer, and told that I would be called upon if necessary. I have heard nothing further, and my application to the Territorial Force Association has been equally unproductive of result. I know from the experience of many young friends who have enlisted that the prolonged waiting for medical examination is very tedious, and it does seem a pity that the authorities will not avail themselves of the services which so many of us are only too
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