Norwich bulletin., 1917-07-26

that all joints are free and supple from the phalanges to the shoulder.
 Must Hop, Leap and Run.
 co Lower extremities: The person under examination is required to leap directly up, striking the buttocks with the heels, to hop the length of the room on the ball of the first foot and then the other, to make a standing jump far as possible and repeat it several times, to ruE the length or the room in double time several times; after which his heart and lungs are examined.
 GID Mental: The mental examination should be such as to develop whether or not the man examined is possessed of normal. sound understanding.
 CD Vision: To determine the acuity of vision. without glasses, place the person under examination with back to window at distance of 20 feet from the test types. Examine each eye separately, without glasses, covering the other eye with card (not with the hand).
 The applicant is directed to read the test types from the top of the chart cown as far as he can see and his acuity of vision recorded for each eye, with the distance of 20 feet as the numerator of a fraction and the size of the type of the lowest line he can read correctly as the denominator.
 If he read the 20 feet type correctly,
 
 20: If he does not read below the 30 feet type, the vision is imperfect and recorded 2O-30; if he reads the 15 feet type, the vision is unusually acute and recorded 20-15, etc.
 CD In accordance with these con- c1usions the minimum visual require ments are as follows: 20-40 for the better eye, and 10-100 for the poorer eye, provided that no organic disease exists in either eye.
 Tests for Hearing Severe.
 "(K)-Hearing-To determine the cant facing away from an assistant who is 20 feet distant and direct him to repeat promptly the words spoken by the assistant. If he cannot hear should approach him, foot by foot using the same voice, until the words are repeated correctly. Examine each ear separately. 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 low conversational voice (not a whisper), just plainly audible to the examiner and should use numer- als, names Of places. or other words or sentences until the condition of the applicants hearing is evident.
  ed in a fraction, the numerator of which is the distance in feet at which the words are heard by the candidate and the denominator the distance in by the normal ear: thus twenty-twen- tieths imperfect hearing, etc "1f any doubt should exist as to the truthfulness of the answers given, a watch should be used, care being taken that the individual does not snow the distance from the ear at which it is being held: the watch used should be one whose ticking strength nas been tested by a trial on normal gar. The hearing with both ears open should not be below ten-twentieths
 Causes for Rejection. "3-The following defects are cause for rejection: "Mental-Lack of normal under standing. "skin-Chronic contagious and pa -ensive: chronic ulcers, deep or ex- ensive. "Head-Abrupt depression in skull, l he consequence of old fracture. "Spine-Curvatures, carries, abscess lateral curvature is cause for rejec- l ion when it exceeds one inch to l either side of the line of spinous pro- ,esses. especially when 1t throws the | shoulders out of symmetry. "Ears-All catarrhal and purulent | orms of outfits media; perforation of l ympanum.
 Eyes-Acuity of vision below the l of paragraph O: con- unctival affections, including tracho- l na and entropion: strabismus dis | ,ases of the lachrymal apparatus, ex- | 'phthalmos, ptosis, asthenopia, hy- | tagmus. Mouth. Nose and Fauces-Deformi- | les interfering with mastication of | speech, chronic alterations, Assures | IT perforations of the hard palate. | of the tonsils suff1cient | o interfere with respiration of pho