Disqualifications for Military Service in the United States

Disqualifications for Military Service in the United States

Contributor(s):
United States. Provost Marshal General's Bureau
Publication:
United States. Government Printing Office, 1875
Language(s):
English
Format:
Text
Genre(s):
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Abstract:
The Provost-Marshal-General's Office managed recruiting for the Union forces during the last two years of the Civil War (1863-1865), standardizing the medical exams and making other improvements to ensure better fitness in new troops. This process generated over a million detailed medical records, which after the war were compiled and analyzed to provide a valuable statistical profile of the physical and medical condition of American men. This section of the published report listed the general categories of physical deficits that would disquality a prospective soldier from service. Pages LI-LVI of J. H. Baxter, Comp., Statistics, medical and anthropological, of the Provost-Marshal-General's Bureau, derived from records of the examination for military service in the armies of the United States during the late war of the rebellion. Vol 1.
Copyright:
The National Library of Medicine believes this item to be in the public domain. (More information)
Extent:
6 pages
NLM Unique ID:
9918573882206676X1 (See in Profiles in Science)
Permanent Link:
http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/9918573882206676X1
Archival Collection:
Risk Factors: Measuring and Rating Health, Illness, and Mortality (Profiles in Science)