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The Surgeon General may transmit direct to camp or post surgeons such technical instructions covering the psy- 

 chological division as he may desire. All such communications will be laid before the commanding officers concerned 

 for their information. 



None of the above instructions shall apply to the Division of Military Aeronautics. 



[702, A.G.O.] 



By order of the Secretary of War: 



Peyton C. March, 

 Official: General, Chief of Staff. 



H. P. McCain, 



The Adjutant General. 



This order was unsatisfactory to the Division of Psychology chiefly because it made the 

 psychological examining of enlisted men optional with commanding officers. Fortunately for 

 the service psychological staffs were so well organized in almost all camps and the service so well 

 established on its merits when this order arrived that in only two or three instances was there an 

 attempt to restrict the examining of enlisted men. It nevertheless seemed desirable, if the serv- 

 ice were to be continued on a satisfactory basis throughout the Army, that the order should be 

 thoroughly revised in the light of the information available in the Office of the Surgeon General 

 and in accordance with demonstrations of value. Consequently on November 4, 1918, a request 

 for a revised order was presented by the Division of Psychology to the Surgeon General. This 

 request was never forwarded to the Adjutant General of the Army because of the signing of the 

 armistice. 



The proposed revision of the general order is presented in full hi order to exhibit the rela- 

 tions, conditions, and instructions which the staff of the Division of Psychology deemed essential 



for the efficiency of the service : 



November 4, 1918. 

 Prom: The Surgeon General, U. S. Army. 

 To: The Chief of Staff. 

 Subject: Revision of General Orders, No. 74, War Department, 1918. 



1. It is requested that section VII, General Orders, No. 74, War Department, 1918, be rescinded, and the following 

 substituted therefor: 



" 1. A Division of Psychology shall be established in the Office of the Surgeon General. 



" 2. A school for military psychology shall be established at Camp Greenleaf, Ga. , to supply adequately trained per- 

 sonnel for the administration of mental tests in the Army. In this school the Surgeon General shall maintain a reserve, 

 trained and in training, composed of officers and enlisted men. Such reserve will be called upon to furnish, under the 

 direction of the Chief of Staff, psychological personnel, either permanently or temporarily, for such points and at such 

 times as need may dictate. 



"3. The arm j' mental tests will be administered in all cantonments, camps, or other pointsatwhich drafted men are 

 received, physically examined, and either temporarily or permanently assigned to organizations. Psychological per- 

 sonnel will be assigned to other army training stations or posts as and when needed. Chiefs of staff corps, department 

 commanders, and commanding officers of posts or stations may make official request for permanent or temporary assign- 

 ment of psychological personnel as seems necessary. 



Under direction of cantonment or camp commanders, any special branch or office of the cantonment or camp may 

 request the assistance of a psychological examiner where it is deemed his services will be of value. Commanding offi- 

 cers of development battalions will requisition for such examiners as necessary. 



"4. All officers below the rank of field officer will be given the army psychological test for officers, and the mental 

 rating thus obtained will be entered on the officer's qualification card. 



All candidates for officers' training camps will be given the army mental tests and the ratings thus obtained will be 

 placed in the hands of organization commanders before final recommendation of candidate has been made. The mental 

 rating will be used as an assisting guide in selection. 



All recruits arriving at depot brigades or other receiving stations at which physical examinations are made, will be 

 given the army mental tests. This will be done as promptly as feasible after a man has arrived, and in any event prior to 

 physical examination and accomplishment of qualification card by personnel officer. 



" 5. A mental rating for every recruit shall be reported within 24 hours of examination to the personnel adjutant. 

 This rating shall be entered promptly on qualification card and service record, and shall be made permanently avail- 

 able to personnel adjutant and commanding officers. 



All recruits who receive a mental rating below D as a result of group army mental tests, shall promptly be given 

 individual army mental examination by psychological officers. The mental rating obtained in such individual exam- 

 ination shall be reported promptly to the personnel adjutant. 



All recruits rated in individual examination below D, and in addition all for whom special neuro-psychiatric 

 examination is indicated as desirable, shall be immediately reported, either directly or through the personnel adjutant, 

 to the neuro-psychiatrist. 



