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Men reported for examination in companies of 250, and were first separated into two 

 groups, those who had and those who had not finished fourth grade. Each group was then ques- 

 tioned as to reading and writing ability, and necessary changes made. The lower group was 

 then sent to the beta room, the upper to alpha. Those who had difficulty in filling out the head- 

 ings of the alpha blank were also sent to beta. Whenever possible, both groups were held 

 while, by short-scoring or other methods, failures were picked out for further examination. 



Selection for individual examining was especially studied; in October the individual ex- 

 aminer, during the beta examination, selected low-grade cases, who were sent at once to the 

 individual examining room. The beta group was held during the short-scoring of tests 1 and 

 6, and failures sent direct to individual examination. Reports of examination were delivered 

 in person to regimental commanders, and conference held. 



The Thirty-sixth Division moved out of Camp Bowie early in July. Permanent organiza- 

 tions were examined until later drafts arrived. In September the psychological examina- 

 tion was taking place as soon as the men had been registered and assigned to companies. It 

 preceded the physical examination, which in turn preceded the equipment and personnel inter- 

 view. Reports were made out and sent to commanding officers within 24 hours. Personnel 

 cards and service records were sent to the psychological building, where ratings were entered 

 by men from the personnel detachment on special duty with the psychological board. For 

 the limited-service draft the intelligence rating was entered on the qualification card at the 

 meeting of the final board and considered before the men were definitely classified; and reports 

 of cases for service organizations or discharge were acted upon by this board. Before the 

 end of September intelligence grades were entered on service records. 



Since the officer personnel changed rapidly, the chief examiner found that a large por- 

 tion of his time was spent in acquainting new officers with the nature of his work and its uses. 

 The development battalion was serving primarily as a source from which special-duty men 

 were drawn — a condition which hindered careful psychological work and full development of 

 the service. In spite of this the personnel services of the chief examiner and his staff were 

 unusually numerous, varied, and satisfactoiy. The chief examiner became practically an 

 associate member of a medical board to examine court cases suspected of mental defect. In 

 cooperation with the camp judge advocate an outline for "Certificate and report of psychological 

 examination ' ' was prepared for reporting court cases, and by arrangement with military police 

 headquarters, all prisoners were examined while awaiting trial. By June an individual 

 examiner was working directly with the psychiatrist, passing the men on with a verbal recom- 

 mendation; no blank was used. In July Pvt. Coxe was detailed to work regularly with the 

 psychiatrist. On occasion, too, the staff helped the personnel officer in selecting men for 

 special detail, even making out a series of examination questions to aid in choosing personnel 

 interviewers. 



Total number enlisted men examined, 27,339; officers, 125. Total individual examina- 

 tions, 1,220. 



CAMP CODY, N. MEX. 



Lieuts. Moore and Wood reported for duty in May, 1918; Sergt. Katz, Corpl. Schmidt, and 

 Pvt. Karn in June; Sergt. Jenkins and Corpl. Weber in September; and Lieut. Ream, from 

 Camp Humphreys, in November. The clerical staff was small; seldom over 20 men on spe- 

 cial detail. Facilities for everything but group examining were excellent. The shortage 

 of officers was especially noticeable at this camp on account of the unusual number of important 

 services that could have been rendered. 



The building in use by the psychological staff was an infirmary assigned temporarily to 

 this work. There was unusual space for individual examining rooms and scoring rooms. The 

 rooms in which it was necessary to do a certain amount of group examining were small and 

 accommodated groups of 50 men or less. It was necessary, therefore, to use the Liberty 

 Theater and the outdoor stadium during periods of rush examining. These buildings were 

 located about a quarter of a mile from the staff headquarters. 



