South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-02-09
HAPPENINGS IN AND ABOUT TOWN
Tests
LESS STRINGENT
New Regulations Lower Bars
to All But Those Below
Ordinary Standards.


for draft registrants have been modi-
ned TO take into the service most all
men unless they are found to be
below a certain mental or physical
standard that would disqUalify them
for practically any ordinary occupa-
ton, according to copies of the
amended regulations received by
local boards Friday morning. The
men are TO be placed in two classes
qualified for special or limited mil
itary service.
Local boards can accept regis
trants for general military service
only when they come within the
standards for unconditional accep-
tance with or without remedial de-
fects. and such registrants can be
rejected for general military service
only when he comes within the
standards Of unconditional rejection.
All other registrants must be re-
ferred by the local board to the
medical advisory board for further
examination and classification.
Insanity Conditions.
Boards are instructed 20 reject
men found to be suffering from in
sanity. epilepsy, idiocy, imbecility.
and proven cases of alcoholism only
under the following conditions: In
sanity-An registrants who are COM
mitted or who have been committed
to a licensed institution for insane
or licensed private institution, who
bring proof from verified records Of
| institution or state boards. Epilepsy
The registrant will be declared an
epileptic when verified histories es-
tablish the disease as of long dura-
ton and of the type of grand NAL,
or ircurable. Idiot-A registrant so
deeply defective in mind from birth
or from early age that he is unable
to guard himself against common
physical danger. Chronic alcoholism
The registrant on examination
must show suffused eyes, prominent
superficial blood-vessels of nose and
cheek. flabby, bloated face, red or
purplish discoloration of mucous
membrane of pharynX, and soft pal
ate; muscular tremor in the pro-
truded tongue and extended fingers.
| tremulous handwriting, emotional
/ ism, prevarication, suspicion, audi
tory and visual Authorizations and
presecutOry ideas. The history or
| evidence that the registrant has been
frequently and grossly intoxicated is
not Of itself sufficient for a diagnosis
of chronic alcoholism and rejection.
In all cases of disease or disabil-
! ity. unless extremely pronounced, or
when it is possible to remedy, cure
or correct the disability, the regis
trant is accepted and placed under
the treatment of military surgeons
or physicians.
Not to be Considered.
Flat feet. toes or fingers off, unless
the index finger or thumb of the
right hand are missing, venereal or
skin diseases. unless in a chronic or
aggravated stage, are not to be con-
sidered as reason for rejection from
service. No foot cases are to be re-
jected, and even in the case of vari-
cose veins when not associated with
oedema and leg ulcer, the affection
is not to be considered as cause for
rejection.
Registrars with one good arrn
and one good leg and all other
doubtful cases are TO be referred to
the medical advisory board.
Those having only one eye are
ordered rejected. but those affected
with color blindness and other minor
diseases of the eyes are to be &C
cepted. Registrars whose vision
tests 2O-100 in one eve and 2O-4O in
the other without glasses or 2O-1OO
in each eye without glasses if cor
rectable with glasses to 2O-4O in
either eye. Registrars with slight
adhesions of the lids to the eyeball,
small pterygium, slight aversion Of
the lids, ptosis, when not interfering
with the vision. strabismus. if vision
up TO standard, or iridectomy, or
other operation in themselves are
not causes for rejection.
Regarding the nose and mouth
the registrant is ordered rejected if
the disease of either is irremediable
or Informative to such an extent
that il cannot be corrected, or inter
feres with the mastication of ordin-
airy food, or interferes with the
speech so that the registrant cannot
be understood, boards are ordered to
reject.
tuberculosis is Bar.
Boards are ordered not 10 reject
any registrant for disease OF the
lungs, pleura, chest wall. etc. except
men with tuberculosis or other dis
eases Of the lungs, etc, who are
confined to their beds and when his
tories establish Enthusiastically the
existence and long duration Of dis
ease.
Registrars not under 100 pounds
in weight, or less than IS inches in
height, and those up 10 IS inches
tall if well proportional, are 10 be
accepted. Registrars with over
weight are TO be accepted unless the
obesity interferes with normal phys
ical activity.
Men with three serviceable naturai