66 
PHYSICAL EXAMINATION OF FIRST MILLION DRAFT RECRUITS. 
were found without defects; of December men less than 20 per cent 
(but the number examined was very small). Thereafter the proportion 
remained at about 75 per cent. In the case of men from Massachu- 
setts the proportion found without defect started at 71 per cent, 
fell to 40 per cent (November to December men), then rose to nearly 
67 per cent in March, 1918, after which it fell slightly (fig. 6, p. 68). 
Table 16.-Number of men accepted as qualified for general military service by local 
boards only (and not sent to medical advisory boards') from June, 1917, to May, 1918, 
inclusive, and number and percentage of same men rejected at mobilization camp. 
State. 
Number 
of men 
accepted as 
qualified 
by local 
boards. 
Number 
of men 
rejected at 
mobiliza- 
tion camps 
who were 
accepted as 
qualified 
by local 
boards. 
Percentage 
of men 
rejected at 
mobiliza- 
tion camps 
to number 
accepted as 
qualified 
by local 
boards. 
Maine 
3,041 
298 
9.80 
Rhode Island 
3,550 
324 
9.13 
New Hampshire 
2,056 
183 
8.90 
Connecticut 
12,552 
1,113 
8.87 
Massachusetts 
27,275 
2,331 
8.55 
California 
33,495 
2,858 
8.53 
Michigan 
38,314 
2,982 
7.78 
Nevada 
1,359 
102 
7.51 
Montana 
10,974 
797 
7.26 
Vermont 
1,805 
7.26 
Mississippi 
7,941 
552 
6.95 
Utah 
4,382 
303 
6.91 
Idaho 
3,841 
264 
6.87 
Washington 
12,144 
831 
6.84 
Florida 
5,459 
364 
6.67 
South Carolina 
8,406 
558 
6.64 
Wyoming 
1,700 
108 
6.35 
Louisiana 
11,738 
684 
5.83 
Kentucky 
15,012 
801 
5.34 
Alabama 
15,035 
793 
5.27 
Georgia 
18,135 
943 
5.20 
New York 
80,869 
4,183 
5.17 
Delaware 
1,640 
82 
5.00 
New Jersey 
27,605 
1,336 
4.84 
Arkansas 
9,241 
435 
4.71 
Wisconsin 
16,751 
777 
4.64 
Oregon 
Indiana 
3, &22 
130 
739 
3.69 
3.38 
Illinois 
61,588 
1,981 
3.22 
Missouri 
22,578 
681 
3.02 
North Dakota 
5,918 
177 
2.99 
North Carolina 
13,296 
382 
2.87 
New Mexico 
2,621 
74 
2.82 
Ohio 
47,402 
1,253 
2.64 
Kansas 
8,660 
32,307 
228 
2.63 
Texas 
829 
2.57 
Arizona 
3,567 
90 
2.52 
Minnesota 
25,412 
636 
2.50 
Nebraska 
10,222 
256 
2- 50 
Oklahoma 
18,067 
415 
2.30 
Colorado 
6,140 
136 
2.22 
Iowa 
18,306 
380 
2.08 
Vest Virginia 
11,354 
223 
1.96 
Virginia 
16,254 
310 
1.91 
South Dakota 
3,636 
61 
1.68 
Tennessee 
13,264 
196 
1.48 
Pennsylvania 
70,598 
980 
1.39 
District of Columbia 
2,440 
31 
1.27 
Maryland 
8,981 
55 
.61 
Alaska 
88 
3,583 
5.47 
State not specified 
65,478 
Total 
867,877 
37,959 
4.37 
Seen by medical advisory board, also not from local boards 
126,329 
Grand total 
994,206