Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-07-12
Height,
GOOD PHYSIQUE NECESSARY


To be acceptable, men below sixty-four
inches in height must be of good physique,
we'll developed and muscular
Variations in weight above the standard
are not disqualifyng, unless sufficient to
constitute obesity Unless exceptionally
well proportioned. men above six feet six
inches In height should be rejected.
The arms extended above the head, backs
Of hands together, the applicant Is re-
qulred to cough vigorously.
The arms extended above the head, the
applicant Is required to take a long step
forward with the right food and bend the
right knee
Examine heart and lungs; rate of pulse
and respiration.
Upper extremitIes Make sure that all
Joints are free and supple from the pha-
langes to the shoulder
MUST HOP, LEAP AND RUN
Lower extremities-The person under ex-
animation Is required to leap directly up;
10 hop the length of the room on the ball
of first one foot and then the other, to
make n standing jump as far as possible
and repeat it several times, TO run the
length OF the room in double time several
times; after which his heart and lungs are
re-eXamined.
Mental--The mental examination should
be such as to develop whether or not the
man examined is possessed or normal sound
understanding.
Vision-To determine the acuity Of
vision, without glasses, place the person
under examination with back to window at
a distance Of twenty feet from the test
types Examine each eye separately with
out glasses, covering the other eye with
card (not with the hand).
The applicant Is directed to read the test
tvpes from the top of the chart down as
FAR as he can see and his acuity OF vision
recorded for each eye, with the distance or
twenty feet as the numerator OF a traction
and the size Of the type OF the lowest line
he can read correctly as the denominator.
II he reads the twenty feet type correctly
bIs vision is normal and recorded 20-2O; II
he does not read below the thirty feet type
the vision is imperfect and recorded 2O-SOi
n he reads the fifteen feet type the vision
10 Inusually acute and recorded 2O-l5, etc.
In accordance with these conclusions the
minimum visual requirements are as fol-
lows, 2O-4O for the better eye, and 2O-lOO
for the poorer eye, provided that no or
Ranio disease exists in either eye.
TESTS FOR HEARING SEVERE
Hearing-To determine the acuiIy of
hearing. place the applicant racing away
rom an assistant who is twenty feet dis
tant and direct him to repeat promptly
the words spoken by the assistant II
he cannot hear the words at twenty feet
the assistant should approach foot by foot
using the same voice, until the words are
repeated correctly Examine each ear sep
arately, closing the tragus firmly against
the meatus.
The examiner, whose hearing should be
normal, faces In the same direction as the
candidate and closes one Of his own ears
in the same way as a control the assistant
should use a low conversational voice mot
a whisper) just plainly audible TO the
examiner and should use numerals names
OF places, OF other words or sentences until
the condition OF the applicants hearing is
evident.
The acuity OF hearing is expressed in a
fraction, the numerator OF which Is the
distance in feet at which the words are
heard by the candidate and the denomina-
tor the distance In feet at which the words
are heard by the normal ear thus twenty
twentieths records normal hearing, ten
twentleths imperfect hearing, etc.
II any doubt should exist as to the truth