The Grand Haven news. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1858-18??, 1863-05-20
The Conscription Law---Causes Of
Exemption.

and other officers under the conscription
law are about to be issued by the War
Department. The following is an extract
from the regulations in regard to exemp'
tions:
s5. The following diseases and infrm-
tiles are those which disqualify for militia
ry service, and for which only drafted
men are to be "rejected as physically or
mentally unfit for SERVICE" viz:
l. Manifest imbecility or insanity.
2. Epilepsy. For this disability the
statement of the drafted man is INSULT
cient, and the fact must be established by
the duly attested affidavit of physician
of good standing, who has attended him
in a convulson.
8. Paralysis, general, or of one limb,
or chorea; their existence to be adequate
ly determined.
4. Acute or organic diseases of the
brain or spinal cord; of the heart or lungs ;
or the stomach or intestines; of the liver
or spleen; of the kidneys or bladder, suf-
ficient to have impaired the general health,
or SO well marked as TO leave no reason
sonable doubt of the mans incapacity for
military service.
5. Confirmed consumption; cancer |;
aneurism of the arteries.
@. Inveterate and extensive disease of
the skin, which will necessarily impair his
efficiency as soldier.
7. Decided feeblencss of constitution,
whether natural or acquired.
8. Scrofula or constitutional syphilla,
which has resisted treatment and serious
ly impaired his general health.
0. Habitual and confirmed intemper-
ance or solitary vice, in degree sufficient
to have materially cnfeeblcd the constitu-
ton.
10. Chronic rheumatism, unless mani
tested by positive change of structure,
wasting of the affected limb, or puffness
or distortion of the joints does not ex-
empt. Impaired motion of joints and
contraction of the limbs alleged to arise
from rheumatism, and in which the nu-
triton of the limb is not manifestly i'm
paired, are to be proved by examination
while in state of anasthesia induced by
ether only.
IL. Pain, whether Stimulating head,
ache, neuralgia in any of its forms, rheu'
matism, lumbago, or affections of the
muscles, bones or joints, is symptom of
disease so easily pretended that it is not
to be admitted as q cause for exemption
unless accompanied with manifest de-
rangement of the general health, wasting
Of limb, or other positive sign of dis
qualifying local disease.
II. Great injuries or diseases Of the
skull, occasioning impairment of the in
tellectual faculties, epilepsy, or other man
ifest nervous or spasmcdic symptoms.
l3. Total loss of sight; loss of sight
of right eye; cataract; loss of chrystaline
lens of right eye.
ii. Other serious diseases of the eye
affecting its integrity and use, e. g. chron'
ic, opthalmia, fstula lachrymalis, ptOsis
(if reaD ectropion, cntropion, &c. Myo
pia, unless very decided or depending up
on somo structural change in the eye, is
not cause for exemption.
Is. Loss of nose; doformity of nose
so great as seriously TO obstruct respira
tion; ozcna, dependent upon carries il
progress.
l6. Complete deafness. This disabili
ty must not be admitted on the mert
statement of tho drafted man, but mus
be proved by the existence of positive
disease, or by other satisfactory evidence
Purulent ottorrhpa.
II. Carries of the superior or inferio
maxilla, of the nasal or palate bones,