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ENROLMENT AND DEAFT. 



6. Inveterate and extensive disease of the skin, 

 which will necessarily impair his efficiency as a soldier. 



7. Decided feebleness of constitution, whether nat- 

 ural or acquired. 



8. Scrofula or constitutional syphilis, which has 

 resisted treatment and seriously impaired his general 

 health. 



9. Habitual and confirmed intemperance or solitary 

 vice, in degree sufficient to have materially enfeebled 

 the constitution. 



10. Chronic rheumatism, unless manifested by posi- 

 tive change of structure, wasting of the affected limb, 

 or puffiness or distortion of the joints, does not exempt. 

 Impaired motion of the joints and contraction of the 

 limos alleged to arise from rheumatism, and in which 

 the nutrition of the limb is not manifestly impaired, are 

 to be proved by examination while in a state of anaes- 

 thesia induced by ether only. 



11. Pain, whether simulating headache, ^neuralgia 

 in any of its forms, rheumatism, lumbago, or affection 

 of the muscles, bones, or joints, is a symptom of dis- 

 ease so easily pretended, tnat it is not to DC admitted 

 as a cause for exemption, unless accompanied with 

 manifest derangement of the general health, wasting 

 of a limb, or other positive signs of disqualifying local 

 disease. 



12. Great injuries or diseases of the skull, occasion- 

 ing impairment of the intellectual faculties, epilepsy, or 

 other manifest nervous or spasmodic symptoms. 



13. Total loss of sight ; loss of sight of right eye ; 

 cataract; loss of crystalline lens of right eye. 



14. Other serious diseases of the eye affecting its in- 

 tegrity and use, e. g., chronic ophthalmia, fistula lach- 

 rymalis, ptosis (if real); ectropion, entropion, Ac. 

 Myopia, unless very decided or depending upon some 

 structural change in the eye, is not a cause for exemp- 

 tion. 



15. Loss of nose ; deformity of nose so great as se- 

 riously to obstruct respiration ; ozena, dependent upon 

 caries in progress. 



16. Complete deafness. This disability must not be 

 admitted on the mere statement of the drafted man, 

 but must be proved by the existence of positive dis- 

 ease, or by other satisfactory evidence. Purulent ot- 

 torrhoea. 



17. Caries of the superior or inferior maxilla or the 

 nasal or palate bones, if in progress , cleft palate, 

 (bony) ; extensive loss of substance of the cheeks, or 

 salivary fistula. 



18. Dumbness; permanent loss of voice; not to be 

 admitted without clear and satisfactory proof. 



19. Total loss of tongue; mutilation or partial loss 

 of tongue, provided the mutilation be extensive 

 enough to interfere with the necessary use of the 

 organ. 



20. Hypertrophy or atrophy of the tongue, sufficient 

 in a degree to impair speech or deglutition ; obstinate 

 chronic ulceration of the tongue. 



21. Stammering, if excessive and confirmed ; to be 

 established by satisfactory evidence, under oath. 



22. Loss of a sufficient number of teeth to prevent 

 proper mastication of food and tearing the cartridge. 



23. Incurable deformities or loss of part of either 

 jaw, hindering biting of the cartridge or proper mas- 

 tication, or greatly injuring speech ; anchylosis of 

 lower jaw. 



24. Tumors of the neck, impeding respiration or de- 

 glutition ; fistula of larynx or trachea; torticollis, if of 

 long standing and well marked. 



25. Deformity of the chest sufficient to impede respi- 

 ration, or to prevent the carrying of arms and military 

 equipments ; caries of the ribs. 



26. Deficient amplitude and power of expansion of 

 chest. A man five feet three inches (minimum stand- 

 ard height for the regular army) should not measure 

 less than thirty inches in circumference immediately 

 above the nipples, and have an expansive mobility of 

 not less than two inches. 



27. Abdomen grossly protuberant; excessive obe- 

 Bity ; hernia, either inguinal or femoral. 



28. Artificial anus ; stricture of the rectum ; prolap- 



sus ani. Fistula in ano is no positive disqualification, 

 but may be so if extensive or complicated with vis- 

 ceral disease. 



29. Old and ulcerated internal haemorrhoids, if in 

 degree sufficient to impair the man's efficiency. Ex- 

 ternal haemorrhoids are no cause of exemption. 



30. The total loss or nearly total loss of penis ; epis- 

 padia or hypospadia at the middle or near the root of 

 the penis. 



31. Incurable permanent organic stricture of the 

 urethra, in which the urine is passed drop by drop, or 

 which is complicated by disease of the bladder; urin- 

 ary fistula. Recent or spasmodic stricture of the urethra 

 does not exempt. 



32. Incontinence of urine, being a disease frequently 

 feigned and of rare occurrence, is not of itself a cause 

 for exemption. Stone in the bladder, ascertained by 

 the introduction of the metallic catheter, is a positive 

 disqualification. 



33. Loss or complete atrophy of both testicles from 

 any cause ; permanent retention of one or both testi- 

 cles within the inguinal canal ; but voluntary retrac- 

 tion does not exempt. 



34. Confirmed or malignant sarcocele, hydrocele, if 

 complicated with organic disease of the testicle. Vari- 

 cocele and crisocele are not, in themselves, disquali- 

 fying. 



35. Excessive anterior or posterior curvature of the 

 spine ; caries of the spine. 



37. Wounds, fractures, tumors, atrophy of a limb, 

 or chronic diseases of the joints or bones, that would 

 impede marching or prevent continuous muscular ex- 

 ertion. 



38. Anchylosis or irreducible dislocation of the 

 shoulder, elbow, wrist, hip, knee, or ankle-joint. 



39. Muscular or cutaneous contractions from wounds 

 or burns, in degree sufficient to prevent useful motion 

 of a limb. 



40. Total loss of a thumb ; loss of ungual phalanx of 

 right thumb. 



41. Total loss of two fingers of the same hand. 



42. Total loss of index finger of right hand. 



43. Loss of the first and second phalanges of the 

 fingers of right hand. 



44. Permanent extension or permanent contraction 

 of any finger except the little finger; all the fingers 

 adherent or united. 



45. Total loss of either great toe ; loss of any three 

 toes on the same foot ; all the toes joined together. 



46. The great toe crossing the other toes with great 

 prominence of the articulation of the metatarsal Done 

 and first phalanx of the great toe. 



47. Overriding, or superposition of all the toes. 



48. Permanent retraction of the last phalanx of one 

 of the toes, so that the free border of the nail bears 

 upon the ground; or flexion at a right angle of the 

 first phalanx of a toe upon a second with anchylosis of 

 this articulation. 



49. Club feet ; splay feet, where the arch is so far 

 effaced that the tuberosity of the scaphoid bone touch- 

 es the ground, and the line of station runs along the 

 whole internal border of the foot, with great promi- 

 nence of the inner ankle; but ordinary, large, ill- 

 shaped or flat feet do not exempt. 



50. Varicose veins of inferior extremities, if not 

 large and numerous, having clusters of knots, and ac- 

 companied with chronic swelling or ulcerations. 



51. Chronic ulcers; extensive, deep, and adherent 

 cicatrices of lower extremities. 



52. No certificate of a physician or surgeon is to be 

 received in support of any point in the claim of draft- 

 ed men for exemption from military service, unless the 

 facts and statements therein set forth are affirmed or 

 sworn to before a civil magistrate competent to admin- 

 ister oaths. 



53. The exempts under the first provision of section 

 second of the act for enrolling and calling out the nation- 

 al forces, etc., will generally be sufficiently well known 

 to the board to obviate the necessity or evidence with 

 regard to them. Should, however, the board consider 

 it necessary in any case, the commission or certificate 



