SURGEONS EEPOKTS — MISSOUEl THIRD DISTRICT. 387 



Age: 



Years. 

 Average age 26. 37 



Greatest age of auy examiued 53. 00 



Least age of any examined 15. 00 



Total number examined, 904. 



The greatest and least age would apply to 1,734 men. 



Weight : 



Pounds. 

 The greatest weight of all examined 242 



The least weight of all examined 85 



Total number examined, 1,734 men. 



These were enrolled men, and were weighed with their clothes on. The man weighing 85 

 pounds was twenty-five years old; height 58.75 inches. I always weighed the men I thought to be 

 very heavy or very light. 



The only deformities met with during my examinations were in the cases of two men with 

 double thumbs, one on the right and one on the left hand. One drafted man cut off two of his 

 fingers, it was said, to avoid being put in the service. He was a tall, narrow-chested man, and 

 would have been rejected even with two good hands. # » # 



A. SPALDING, 

 Surgeon Board of Enrollment Ninth District of Kentucky. 

 Greenupsburgii, Kv., Amju.st 10, 1805. 



MISSOURI— THIRD DISTRICT.' 

 Extracts from report of Dr. James R. McCormick. 



* * * While acting in this capacity, I have examined seven hundred and thirty- 



two men, making in all about fifteen hundred and thirty-two examinations. * * » 



This congressional district is composed of twenty-two counties, bounded as follows: On the 

 north by the couii,ties of Jefferson, Franli^jn, Crawford, and Pheli^s; on the south by the Arkansas 

 line; on tlie east by the Mississijipi River; and on the west by the counties of Howell, Texas, 

 Phelps, and Crawford. It includes an area of about fifteen thousand square miles, presenting a 

 mountainous, undulating, and swampy surface, which features modify diseases and influence the 

 mode of life and occupation of the inhabitants. The principal rivers are the Saint Francois, Black, 

 Castor, Whitewater, Merrimac, and Mississippi. With the exception of the latter, none are navi- 

 gable to any considerable extent within the limits of the State. 



The principal towns are Cape Girardeau, New Madrid, and Sainte Genevieve on the Mississippi 

 River. Potosi, Farmington, Ironton, and Frederickton are the largest inland towns. Niimerons 

 small villages and county-seats have been located, but are slightly improved as yet. * * * 



The mountainous poi'tiou is embraced in the counties of Iron, Washington, Dent, Oregon, 

 Shannon, Ripley, Reynolds, and Carter, the surface of which is broken by spurs of the Ozark Mount- 

 tains and numerous ranges of high bills. 



In many places, the soil is rocky and barren, but rich and productive along the streams. Some 

 of the uplands also produce well. The bills abound in forests of oak, pine, and other valuable 

 timber. 



Valuable minerals are here found, of wbich iron is the most abundant. Pilot Knob, eighty-six 

 miles south of, and eleven hundred feet above, the city of Saint Louis, alone presents an inexhaust- 

 ible supply of that metal. Lead, copper, cobalt, zinc, nickel, kaolin, marble, and granite are found 

 in various localities and in considerable quantities. 



The air is salubrious and the water pure; the latter in some places possesses mineral jjroper- 

 ties; chalybeate being most frequently found. 



The inhabitants are vigorous and healthy. The greater portion of them are engaged in agri- 

 cultural and mining pursuits, displaying considerable industry, intelligence, and enteri)rise. 

 ' No reports were received fiioui the first and second districts. 



