surgeons' KEPOKTS VERMONT THIRD DISTRICT. 195 



ii surgeon in tlie army. If such a man is rciiniroil and bis entire linic connnandeil, he should bave 

 tbe same rank and pay as a surgco'i in tlie army. Ee sbonld not ranlv on the board below acivil- 

 jiiu who has no responsibility, and whose qualilicatious are not exactly defined. 



C. V. FROST, 

 Surgeon Board of Enrollment (Second District of Vertnont. 

 Windsor, Vt., June 14, 1865. 



VERMOISIT— THIRD DISTRICT. 



Rrtrdcts from report of Dr. ,1. S. OiiANDLER. 



* * * Tbe number of men examined in this district, as nearly as can be ascer- 

 tained, comprising conscri|)ts, substitutes, and recruits, is 3,(i()!t. * * * 



The third district ot Vermont, comi)rising six counties, is bounded on the east by the Con- 

 necticut River; on the north by Canada liast; west by Lake Champlain; and south by the counties 

 of Addison, Washington, and Caledonia. It is divided by the Green Mountains nearly midway 

 between Connecticut River on the east, and Lake Cliamplain on the west, and is traversed by con- 

 siderable rivers on each side; those on the west emptying into Lake Champlain, and on the east 

 into the Connecticut River. The width of the district on the north, comprising the whole width of 

 the State, is about ninety miles ; its extent from north to south may average forty miles. The soil 

 consists of clay, sand, and loam, in greatly varying proportions, constituting a strong and produc- 

 tive soil. Lime abounds west of the mountains; on the east side 1 think little is found. 



I am not aware of the predominance of any disease or class of diseases that should dis- 

 tinguish this district from New England generally. Rheumatism, catarrh, pleurisy, pneumouia, 

 l)eritonitis, and perhaps enteritis, are of frequent occurrence, doubtless as a consequence of our 

 very variable climate, which displays great and sudden changes of temperature. The different 

 forms of fever are of Irequent occurrence, typhoid predominating. We are liable, in common with 

 other sections, to the sweeping epidemics of the country, but suffer less from them, I think, than 

 other sections of higher average temperature, and which are less favored with an admirable pro- 

 portion of /(/// and dale. 



The inhabitants are probably fully equal in hardiness and enterprise to those of any other 

 district in New England. In the mechanic arts less has been attempted than in some other dis- 

 tricts, though enterprise is rapidly advancing in this direction. Agriculture is the main pursuit. 

 Few districts in the country are better supplied with good common schools, academies, &c., which 

 are well improved. In connection with the University of Vermont, a medical college, in flourishing 

 condition, is located in this district. 



* * * In regard to changes in paragraph 85, I would suggest that instructions 

 should be made more definite in regard to a class of rejected men that swells the ninth section in 

 our reports; or that three sections be added, one for deficient age, one for excess of age, and one 

 for deficient amplitude or expansive power of chest. 



In regard to (juestion G, the number of men that can be jiroperly examined in one day depends 

 so nuich on the condition of the men examined, and on the facilities associated with the work, that 

 it is difiicult to specify. One lot of men might be examined satisfactorily in half the time required 

 by another lot of equal number. If a thorough examination of thirty men a day be made, taking 

 them as they average under the present condition of the enrollment, and also with the present 

 average of substitutes and recruits, I think the Government should be satisfied. It should be 

 remembered that many cases are such as require time for investigation. * * * 



In paragraph 88, Revi.sed Regulations, we have certainly implied instructions to receive affi- 

 davits, "duly atfirmed," &c., and to give them all the weight they migiit justly claim. Medical 

 inspectors, in one or two instances, have instructed us to ignore them entirely. May it not be well 

 to add a section to i)aragrai)li S5 that will be unmistakably clear on that point ? 



* * * I can suggest nothing new in relation to frauds attempted by men under exami- 

 nation. These have all come to be pretty well understood. I may be excused for alluding to the 

 frauds perpetrated by substitute and recruit brolcers, which, in various ways, have done the country 



