(2) The measurements and observations to be made. (See 

 below "Scope of the Survey.") 



(3) The organization required for making, collecting, analyzing 

 and preserving the records. 



It will be convenient to consider the last question first in order. 



Use of the Military Organisation. The Council feels that it is not 

 desirable to enter into administrative questions in any great detail at 

 present, especially as many of them can only be settled when the scheme 

 becomes one of practical politics. It may be pointed out, however, 

 that a very great change has come about since the Inter-Departmental 

 Committee issued its Report a change which makes a survey of the 

 manhood of the people more feasible than it ever was before. The 

 organization which war has rendered compulsory could provide the 

 anthropological data as regards the chief constituents of the popula- 

 tion, without detriment to military service; nay, an accurate survey 

 should be of military advantage. It is probable that during the assem- 

 blage of the present armed forces of the country, statistics relating to 

 the physical condition of the nation's manhood have been accumulated, 

 but in view of the hurried conditions under which recruiting had to 

 be carried on, and the diverse methods employed by medical officers 

 at the time, it is unlikely that such statistics could serve as a standard 

 basis. Were, however, some kind of compulsory service to remain in 

 force, and were medical officers, trained in a uniform system of ob- 

 servation, placed in charge of the examination of recruits in selected 

 areas of the country, there could be obtained through the Army organ- 

 ization such data as are required for an anthropometrical survey. 



Use of medical examination in schools. The organization for the 

 collection of data relating to school children is already more than 

 foreshadowed. To make the existing arrangements effective for the 

 purposes of a survey, it would be necessary for the medical officers to 

 be trained systematically in the employment of uniform methods of 

 measurement and record. 



The Central Organisation. A very important and also very diffi- 

 cult matter is the constitution of a central body, to be responsible for 

 the manner in which the survey is carried out, for the determination 

 of its scope, and for the collection, systematization and publication of 

 the records. The Inter-Departmental Committee recommended the 

 adoption of a scheme which was formulated by Professor D. J. Cun- 

 ningham (Report, Part I, p. 8). In that scheme it was proposed that 

 there should be: 



(1) A Consultative Committee, consisting of three leading an- 

 thropologists, the appointments to be honorary and unsalaried. 

 They were to be advisers, but their powers were not defined. 



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