The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-08-13

The War Department authorizes
publication of the following prelim-
mary statement ana rules for stan
dards of physical examination govern
ing the entrance to all branches of the
armies of the United States.
The regulations are for the use of
medical officers of the Regular Army,
National Army, National Guard, Med
ical Reserve Corps, recruiting officers
of the United States Army, and of To-
cal boards and medical advisory
boards under the selective-seryice
regulations.
I. Preliminary Statement and Rules
1. The purpose of the Standards of
Physical Examination is to secure
greater efficiency and uniformity In
the examination of registrants and en-
listed men. Medical examiners should
consider the standards as a guide to
their discretion; therefore they are
not to be construed too strictly or ar
bitrarily. The object is to procure
men who are physically fit, or who
can be made so, for the rigors of field
service, or for special and limited SER
questions is left to the judgment and
discretion of the examining boards
appointed under authority of the Sc
lective-service law, and to the mill
tary examining surgeons at mobiliza-
ton camps and other Army posts and
stations.
Apply to Volunteers.
\
lished by these regulations apply to
voluntary applicants for enlistment,
as we'll as to registrants, under the Sc
lective-service act, the term regis
trants," as used therein, may be con-
sidered as including applicants for en-
Hstment where such Interpretation Is
necessary to Il proper application OF
the text.
Voluntary applicants for enlist
ment who do not come within the
standards of acceptance for general
military service as applied to regis
trants under the selective-service act
will be rejected for all military SER
vice, unless the defects are waived by
authority of The Adjutant General of
the Army.
Local boards have original juris-
diction, subject to review on appeal
to district boards, and may accept or
reject registrants for military service
as follows:
Acceptance and Rejection.
(a) Registrars who on examina-
ton are found to present conditions
which fall within the proper stand
ards shall be unconditionally accept
ed for general military service.
(b) Registrars who on examina-
ton are found to suffer from RENE
| diable defects which fall within the
proper standards may be accepted
| for special and limited military SER
vice.
(d) Registrars who on examina-
ton are found to present defects
which fall within the proper STAN
| dards shall be Internationally reject
ed for all military service.
5 Local boards need not make a
complete physical examination of ev-
| cry registrant. Upon discovery of a
| defect requiring unconditional re-
| lection the physician Of the local
board need proceed no further; but
| in all other cases there must be a
| complete examination as prescribed
in section 1872, Selective Service Regu-
| lations.
| Powers of Advisory Boards.
Medical advisory boards have no
power to determine finally whether a
registrant shall be accepted or re-
| jected for military service. This
i power is placed. by the Selective Ser
vice Regulations in the local and dis
trict exemption boards. The func-
tons of the medical advisory boards
are, as the name imports, to examine
registrants referred to them by the
exemption boards and state adjutants
general and to return the result OF
their examinations inserted at the
proper places in Form 1910 P. M, G
O., Report of Physical Examina.
| ton" (sec. 2s2, Selective Service Reg.
ulations, p. 1859, The medical ad;
visory boards are not required tc
make a complete examination of ev-
cry registrant, At any point in the
course of the examination when it II
found that the registrant is physically
or mentally unfit within the standard:
of unconditional rejection, the exam.
nation need proceed no further. AT.
ter a medical advisory board has com.
pieted the examination OF the regis
trant, the chairman, OF a designated
member of the advisory board, shall
tcertify<the result iRttAsepFepersspaos