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Chart XXXIV: Disease

Creator:: United States. Provost Marshal General's Bureau
Publisher:: United States. Government Printing Office
Title:: Chart XXXIV: Disease
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 all diseases in relation to occupation. Chart XXXIV 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:: 9918573882206676X7
Profiles Collection:: Risk Factors: Measuring and Rating Health, Illness, and Mortality
Shareable Link:: https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/9918573882206676X7
Story Section:: Data Collecting during the U.S. Civil War, 1861-1865
Exhibit Tags:: civil