Creator:

United States. Provost Marshal General's Bureau

Publisher:

United States. Government Printing Office

Title:

Chart IV: Phthisis Pulmonalis

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. The published report included this chart showing the number of recruits rejected for phthisis pulmonalis (tuberculosis of the lungs) in relation to marital status, color, age, height, and national origin. Chart IV 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. Part 2, Charts and Maps.

Rights:

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

Genre:

Monographs
Excerpts
Charts (graphic documents)

Format:

Text

Extent:

1 pages

Language:

English

NLM ID:

9918573882206676X4

Profiles Collection:

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

Shareable Link:

https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/9918573882206676X4

Story Section:

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

Exhibit Tags:

civil