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On the social side, there were about 3.3 per cent of recruits with 

 venereal disease; but much more among the colored recruits than the 

 white. Absence of fingers, arms, and legs were most frequent in 

 regions of saw-mills, of cotton-mills in the South, and in cities largely 

 made up of workers in raih-oad shops and of other present or former 

 railroad employees. 



The problem of goiter was brought out vividly when two great 

 goiter centers were revealed — one about the Great Lakes and the 

 other in the extreme Northwest. 



The excess of pulmonary tuberculosis from the desert sanitoria 

 States of the West revealed the great extent of the migration thither 

 of the tuberculous. 



The result of the draft was not such as to justify pessimism as to the 

 national physique. Defects were found in less than half of the 

 drafted men ; and it is fair to conclude that in less than 8 per cent of the 

 men was the disability of such a nature as to handicap the man in an 

 important way for civil duties. 



Since the remainder of the statistical work on the physique of the 



men of military age is not yet published, it will not be discussed here. 



It is beheved that the experience gained by your Director in studying 



this data will be of no little use in further developing the work of the 



Eugenics Record Office. 



FIELD WORK. 



The work of Dr. Elizabeth C. Muncey during the year has been of a 

 varied sort. On the one hand, she has secured extensive genealogical 

 data on miUtary men. For this purpose she has utilized the Library 

 of Congress. She has also done some field work on twin-producing 

 famihes and on famihes showing other traits which occurred in the 

 territory traversed by her. Reports on all of her researches have been 

 deposited at the Office. 



STERILIZATION LAWS. 



Dr. H. H. Laughlin, superintendent of the Office, has prepared for 

 publication a work on the legal and legislative aspects of eugenical 

 sterilization in the United States. 



STATISTICAL STUDY OF STATE INSTITUTIONS. 



The Bureau of the Census reports that the statistical study of State 

 institutions for the socially inadequate, prepared during the years 

 1915 to 1917, the publication of which was delayed on account of the 

 war, is now in press. This work gives a short historical account and, 

 in detail, a statistical analysis of the accommodations, the movement 

 of the population, and the administrative and maintenance expendi- 

 tures of each of the 634 State and National institutions for the several 

 types of the socially inadequate. It will appear under the title "A 

 Statistical Directory of State Institutions for the Care of Defective, 

 Dependent, and Delinquent Classes." 



