SURGEOJVS ItEPOKTS OHIO SIXTH DISTRICT. 401 



cations of the colored race for military service^ as but few of this class have presented themselves 

 for examination at Ihis office. 1 am convinced, however, from what knowledge 1 have of them, that 

 the colored men who are born aud reared in northern latitudes are more subject to strumous dis- 

 ease than the white race in the same regions, while those born and reared in tiie southern country 

 are uniformly of good physique. 



There is, in my opinion, one very important defect in the enrollment-law. Persons from eighteen 

 to fortyfice years of age should be made liable. My experience convinces me that as good soldiers 

 as any that have been furnished to the Army from this district have been between the ages of 

 eighteen ami twenty. I would establish a standard for those under twenty-one ; for instance, 

 reject all those who do not present a good physique, measure thirty inches around the chest at 

 expiratioti, show a height of at least five feet four inches, a weight of one hundred and twenty five 

 pounds, aud an expansion of chest of three inches. 



Hundreds of young men in this district were exempt from the operations of the euroUmeut-law 

 who were by all- odds better able to discharge the duties of a soldier than thousands who ivere 

 liable. Another consideration is, that persons of this age usually have no family to care for, aud 

 hence can go with less inconvenience than their elders. 



C. I. NEFF, 

 Surgeon Board of Enrollment Fifth District of Ohio. 



Lima, Ohio, June 8, 1865. 



OHIO— SIXTH DISTRICT. 

 Extracts from report of Dr. David Noble. 



* * * The number of men examined by me for military service and for the pur- 



pose of exemption, as nearly as can be ascertained, is four thousand five hundred. A very large 

 number of these, especially those who wished to be exempted, were able bodied; about twenty per 

 cent, of those claiming exemption were stricken from the rolls ; and about fifteen per cent, of those 

 offering themselves as recruits and substitutes were rejected. Soldiers discharged on account of 

 physical disability swell the amount of rejections considerably. 



The district is composed of the counties of Highland, Brown, Clermont, Clinton, and Fayette, 

 and contains about four thousand five hundred and fifty square miles. The Ohio River bounds the 

 counties of Clermont and Brown on the south. Highland, Clinton, and Fayette Counties are situ- 

 ated north of the aloresaid counties. The principal streams are the Little Miami, Paint, White 

 Oak, and Bullskin; the first named being designated with the name of river, while the others are 

 denominated creeks. 



Highland County, as its name indicates, is very uneven and hilly, although it cannot be said 

 to be mountainous, aud is considered the most elevated i)ortion of land in the State. The laud on 

 which the county seat is built is one hundred and thirty-four feet higher than the base of the 

 foundation of the State-house at Columbus. 



Three miles from this place (Hillsborough) is a farm-house, the water dripping from the eaves 

 of which during a shower contributes to swell the waters of the Little Miami and the Scioto Rivers ; 

 the one emptying into the Ohio River at Portsmouth, Ohio, the other at Cincinnati, Ohio, two hun- 

 dred miles apart at their mouths. The soil is clayey, with the exception of the lowlands (bottoms) 

 bordering on the large streams, which are alluvial. Brown and Clerujont Counties may be included 

 iu what is .said of Highland in relation to surface aud soil. 



Fayette and Clinton Counties are more level, and are moie fertile; the soil of tiie former 

 being loamy, the latter clayey. In Fayette, there is a large extent of lauds called by the inhabitants 

 "barrens," which is entirely destitute of forest-trees, resembling prairies in the West, but is dif 

 fereut from what its name would indicate, since, under a proper system of drainage and cultivation, 

 they are very fertile. 



Diseases. — In this county, (Fayette,) intermittents are very prevalent during the fall months; 

 the patients frequently continuing to have the chills during the winter months ; the caus(> evidently 

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