CONTENTS 



PART I 

 GENERAL ARMY ANTHROPOMETRY 



Urgency of better standards of physical examinations 11 



The examination of recruits by officers of the line 13 



The sphere and function of physical anthropology 14 



Recommendations of the Committee on Anthropology of the Na- 

 tional Research Council 15 



The need for a national anthropometric survey 16 



Rules for the preliminary physical examination 17 



Inadequacy of examinations by officers of the line 18 



Obscure evidences of physical maturity 19 



Stigmata of degeneracy 20 



Limitation of army rejection experience 21 



Recruiting experience under voluntary enlistments 22 



Inconclusive statistics of physical deterioration 23 



Conflict of medical and non-medical considerations in recruiting 24 



A decade of United States recruiting statistics 26 



Important changes in recruiting standards 27 



Changes recommended by the Committee on Anthropology of the 



National Research Council 28 



Race in relation to normal stature 29 



Statistical and mathematical considerations of frequency distribu- 

 tion in physical proportions 31 



Standard methods of anthropometric measurements 33 



Stature of accepted United States recruits under the voluntary sys- 

 tem of enlistment 35 



Race in relation to frequency distribution of stature 38 



Race in relation to weight 39 



Race in relation to chest measurements 41 



Standard of physical proportions adopted May 18, 1917 46 



Analysis of foreign recruiting statistics 46 



Index of vital resistance 47 



Limited value of recruiting data 48 



Race in relation to physical proportions . 49 



Recruiting statistics of Prussia 50 



Stature of German conscripts 51 



Inconclusive army rejection data 52 



Rejection data of the German army 53 



Geographical variations in the causes of rejections 55 



