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PHYSICAL EXAMINATION OF FIRST MILLION DRAFT RECRUITS. 
From the foregoing extracts it will be seen that the function of the 
medical advisory board was, as its name indicated, purely advisory. 
Also it will be specifically noted that the medical advisory board 
functioned only during the induction of the last 400,000 men con- 
sidered in this report, or about two-fifth of all. Nevertheless, it will 
be interesting to consider the principal grounds of reference to 
medical advisory boards and the varying extent to which the same 
diseases were referred by local boards to the medical advisory boards 
in the different States. In the following sections will be considered 
primarily those diseases for which the local board during a part or 
the whole of the period under consideration was required to reject. 
Table 3.- Tuberculosis, pulmonary 
State. 
Rejected 
men seen 
by local 
board 
only. 
Per 1,000 
of men 
examined. 
Rejected 
men seen 
by medical 
advisory 
board 
also. 
Per 1,000 
of men 
examined 
at medical 
advisory 
board. 
Per cent 
rejected at 
1 mobiliza- 
tion camp 
! for tuber- 
| culosis that 
had been 
referred 
to medical 
1 advisory 
board. 
Tennessee 
8 
0.58 
10 
11.49 
55.56 
Wisconsin 
28 
1.64 
11 
7.12 
28.20 
Kansas 
47 
5.09 
17 
23.29 
26.56 
District of Columbia 
3 
.69 
1 
6.41 
25.00 
Colorado 
47 
7.44 
13 
28.20 
21.67 
Missouri 
180 
7.68 
43 
24.86 
19.28 
New Hampshire 
9 
4.32 
2 
9.66 
18.18 
Oregon 
9 
2.52 
2 
6.21 
18.18 
New York 
189 
2.27 
40 
6.47 
17.47 
New Jersey 
52 
1.84 
11 
4.98 
17.46 
South Dakota 
16 
4.26 
3 
11.63 
15.79 
Vermont.. 
11 
5.98 
2 
8.30 
15.38 
Illinois 
149 
2.26 
25 
5.50 
14.37 
Rhode Island 
24 
6.66 
4 
11.36 
14.29 
Michigan 
111 
2.81 
17 
6.13 
13.28 
Georgia 
107 
5.45 
16 
12.40 
13.01 
Oklahoma 
53 
2.80 
7 
7.24 
11.67 
Arizona 
31 
8.34 
4 
22. 73 
11.43 
Indiana 
64 
2.90 
8 
6.13 
11.11 
Nebraska 
40 
3.85 
5 
9.40 
11.11 
Utah 
17 
3.78 
2 
12.66 
10.53 
Connecticut 
62 
4.82 
7 
8.89 
10.15 
Minnesota 
31 
1.20 
3 
1.82 
8.82 
Kentucky 
110 
7.21 
10 
16.16 
8.33 
Maine 
24 
7.75 
2 
8.09 
7.69 
Pennsylvania 
88 
1.16 
7 
2.27 
7.37 
Virginia 
51 
2.82 
4 
7.42 
7.27 
Massachusetts 
156 
5.47 
12 
7.31 
7.14 
Ohio 
84 
1.64 
6 
2.36 
6.67 
West Virginia 
29 
2.40 
2 
3.84 
6.45 
Washington 
59 
4.73 
4 
3.83 
6.35 
New Mexico 
30 
10.92 
2 
21.98 
6.25 
Louisiana 
106 
8.57 
7 
18.23 
6.19 
Mississippi 
97 
11.46 
6 
16. 48 
5.83 
Iowa 
86 
4.47 
5 
3.68 
5 49 
Texas 
158 
4.52 
7 
7.82 
4.24 
Alabama 
94 
6.02 
4 
5.87 
4.08 
South Carolina 
86 
8.72 
3 
18.63 
3.37 
Montana 
33 
2.96 
1 
1.61 
2.94 
Arkansas 
218 
22.00 
4 
10.53 
1. 80 
California 
243 
6.97 
4 
4.01 
1.62 
North Carolina 
161 
10. 93 
2 
4.57 
1.23 
Florida 
44 
7.58 
Wyoming 
11 
6.25 
Idaho 
18 
4.61 
Delaware 
6 
3.40 
Nevada 
2 
1.43 
North Dakota 
7 
1.16 
Maryland 
3 
.32 
State not specified 
874 
8.72 | 
8 
4.82 
.91 
Total 
4,166 
4.41 
353 
7.15 
7.81