Creator:

United States. Provost Marshal General's Bureau

Publisher:

United States. Government Printing Office

Title:

Disqualifications for Military Service in the United States

Date:

1875

Description:

The Provost-Marshal-General's Office managed recruiting for the Union forces during the last two years of the Civil War (1863-1865), standardizing the medical exams and making other improvements to ensure better fitness in new troops. This process generated over a million detailed medical records, which after the war were compiled and analyzed to provide a valuable statistical profile of the physical and medical condition of American men. This section of the published report listed the general categories of physical deficits that would disquality a prospective soldier from service. Pages LI-LVI of J. H. Baxter, Comp., Statistics, medical and anthropological, of the Provost-Marshal-General's Bureau, derived from records of the examination for military service in the armies of the United States during the late war of the rebellion. Vol 1.

Rights:

The National Library of Medicine believes this item to be in the public domain.

Genre:

Monographs
Excerpts

Format:

Text

Extent:

6 pages

Language:

English

NLM ID:

9918573882206676X1

Profiles Collection:

Risk Factors: Measuring and Rating Health, Illness, and Mortality

Shareable Link:

https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/9918573882206676X1

Story Section:

Data Collecting during the U.S. Civil War, 1861-1865

Exhibit Tags:

civil