The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-03-22
BrattlebOro Listers Taking
Census of Males of Mil
itary Age
LOCAL HOSPITAL
FACILITIES NOTED
Special Work Among Medical Men =
List of Questions to Which Answers
Are Required by Listers = Military
Company Enlisting Recruits.


With the listers and an assistant
canVassing the town today for the
military census of the town: with the
medical fraternity canvassing phvsi-
clans OF the county for the names of
those willing and physically capable of
service IN the medical department of
either the army or the navy and pre-
parlng an inventory of drug store and
hospital supplies; and with Company l
eleetlng officers and enlisting recruits.
Brattleboro, under the surface. is TAX.
ing active advance steps to be pre-
pared to meet what appears to be inev.
liable war
The listers have been held back in
| thelr start to make the military cen
sus by the failure of the necessary
| blanks to arrive, but those came last
evening and this morning the three
listers started forth armed with
the blanks and fountain pens to make
house-to-house canvass. They are
Hugh II. Dunklee Fred a. Betterlev
and Abram j. Currier.
As the law requires that this mill
tary census shall be competed, if pos
sine, by April /, the listers nave en-.
Ilsted AID IN this work Waiter al.
hobblns started also this morning on
TINS census, and Oscar +. Benson will
be added to the staff of assistants Mon
day morning
|
Dr. W. II. Lane, secretary of the
! Wlndham county committee of the
National Committee of American Phv-
sIcians for Medical Preparedness. and
Dr. Herbert ". Taylor Of the county
committee were in Bellows Falls yes
terday at a meeting of the committee.
Of which DR.. j. A. Stevenson of Ches-
ter is the chairman.
As the quic kest method of obtain
| ing the necessary data it was decided
| to mail at once to every physician in
the county 4 set of questions, which
Will embrace the necessary knowledge
OF his physical condition and Wiling
ness, if called upon, to enter the medi-
cal service Of either the army or the
navy. These will be mailed this week
and prompt replies are expected.
In addition the committee will secure
at once an inventory of supplies that
would be useful III the event of war,
which the drug stores of the county
have Oh hand and such as the hospitals
IN the county have in stock.
Exact information will be obtained
from the hospitals in the county, in
ciuding the Memorial, the Melrose and
the Brattleboro Retreat in Brattle-
boro, as to how many patients they
would be able TO accommodate in the
event of being called upon. 1t is
| planned to make this census by the
physicians very complete affair and
to have it completed within a very
short time.
In order that the listers may not be
hindered in their work by not finding
men at home when they call, they sug-
| gest that in addition to their full
names and post office addresses all men
of military age leave with some one at
their places of residence answers to the
following questions, which are the ques-
tions on the blanks to be filed out:
What is your occupation? What is
your age2 Height Weight9 Have
you any serious physical defect, if so
state what? Are you married, single,
or widower? How many persons are
dependent upon you for support? Are
you a citizen of the United States?
If not a citizen, have you filed your
first papers for naturalization? What
is your nationality Color (white or
black)? Have you had any military
training, if so state when, where and
how much? Can you ride a horse7
Handle and care for team7 Drive an
fautomobile2 Ride motorcycles Tel
agraph? Operate . wireless? Operate
a flying machine? Swim?