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UNITED STATES DISCIPLINARY BARRACKS, FORT LEAVENWORTH, KANS. 



In December, 1918, Capt. Norton, as chief examiner, and Lients. Folsom and Lincoln were 

 ordered to Fort Leavenworth to make examination of prisoners. Capt. Norton and Lieut. 

 Folsom were relieved in January ; Lieut. Lincoln at the end of March. 



Alpha examinations of men who had completed the fifth grade were conducted in the bar- 

 racks auditorium; beta groups were examined in the schoolroom. Additional individual exami- 

 nations were made at the request of the psychiatric and sociological board and of medical exam- 

 iners. Ratings were found valuable by the personnel officer and by psychiatric officers, who 

 recommended to the review board the discharge of men below 8 years mentally. All intelligence 

 ratings were considered in connection with modification of sentences. The statistical work in 

 connection with the psychiatric survey of the institution was carried out mainly under the direc- 

 tion of Lieut. Lincoln. 



Number of men examined, 3,605. Individual examinations, 287. 



CAMP UPTON, N. Y. 



Capt. Hayes reported as chief examiner in April, 1918. In August he reported at Camp 

 Humphreys to organize psychological examining. Capt. Boring reported for duty in April, be- 

 coming chief examiner in August; Lieut. Adams reported in June. In November Capt. Boring 

 was called to the Office of the Surgeon General, and Capt. Pedrick was sent from Camp Shelby 

 as chief examiner at Camp Upton. Sergt. Davis, Corps. Gill, Muller, and William Cohen, and 

 Pvts. J. Cohen, Wescott, Hoffman, Browdy, Brown, Goolsby, Whitehead, and Walker were 

 assistant examiners trained at Camp Greenleaf* All physical arrangements for examining were 

 exceedingly satisfactory at Camp Upton. 



Men who could read newspapers were given examination alpha. Failures in alpha were 

 recalled for beta. In October, a simple dictation and arithmetic test was introduced to reduce 

 reexamination. Negroes making D- on alpha were given individual examination; by a short- 

 scoring method developed for examination beta, D- cases were held foi immediate individual 

 examination. 



Until September, the physical preceded the psychological examination. A psychologist on 

 the special medical board (which examined the men selected by the general medical board) 

 gave individual examination to cases suspected of mental defect. This arrangement was 

 continued, although after September the psychological examination was placed first; men 

 rated E were tagged "Report to M. and N. Board" (mental and nervous) . A psychologist was 

 present with the individual examination papers, and decision concerning rejection was made 

 conjointly. 



Ratings were reported to the personnel officer and to company commanders within 24 hours 

 and entered on the qualification cards before the men left camp. (Most of the recruits were 

 assigned to some other camp at the end of two weeks.) Entry of ratings on service records 

 was begun in August hi connection with examination of prisoners, and made universal in Sep- 

 tember (camp order, Sept. 22). 



The staff at Camp Upton was carefully organized for efficient routine work. Beside 

 examination of the draft, a psychologist stationed at the base hospital made examination for 

 the psychiatric staff; prisoners were examined regularly; the development battalions were rated 

 on literacy and on an ' ' English-speaking scale' ' as well as on intelligence. 



Statistical work under Capt. Boring was directed especially toward the study of examina- 

 tion methods. A variety of reports on examination beta, reports on the test of English-speak- 

 ing ability here devised, and on the possibilities of the personal data blanks tried out for Prof. 

 Woodworth, of Columbia University, were of unusual value. 



Number of enlisted men examined, 61,008; officers, 551. Total individual examinations, 

 3,707. 



