438 surgeons' reports — Illinois — seventh district. 



meu who ciniie under my observiitiou were of a scrofulous diathesis, and coiisequently uot well 

 adapted to military life. 



The enrollment-law, as it now exists, is well calculated to fulfill the object for which it was 

 created, and I would not recommend any change with the exception of au increase of pay to district 

 provost-marshals and surgeons of boards of enrollment. No respectable surgeon, except in time of 

 war and as a matter of pure patriotism, can afford to relinquish his practice for the present com- 

 pensation allowed to surgeons of boards of enrollment. I would tlierefore recommend, in the event 

 of a future necessity for the services of such officers, that the district provost-marshal be entitled 

 to the rank and pay of a lieutenant-colonel, and the surgeon to the rank and pay of a regimental 

 surgeon. # » # 



EOBT. M. McARTHUR, 

 Surgeon Board of Enrollment SLrth District of Illinois. 



JOLIET, III., Avgnst 30, 1865. 



ILLINOIS— SEVENTH DISTRICT. 

 Extracts from report of Dr. Winston Somers. 



* * * From the commencement of the recruiting, some time about the 12th of 



January, 1SG5, up to the termination of the draft on the 15tb of April following, I examined one 

 thousand four hundred and eighty-three recruits ond substitutes, and one hundred and ten drafted 

 men, making in all one thousand live hundred and ninety-three. I also examined three hundred 

 and fifty-lour enrolled men in the month of January, who applied to be examined for some real or 

 jiretended disability for the purpose of being exempted from the draft; a number of them were 

 exempted lor various causes. # » # 



The following table will give the age, height, and measurement of the chest of the recruits, 

 substitutes and drafted men: 



Table No. 1. 



Measurement of the chest. 



Average measurement at inspiration, inches 35 



Average measurement at expiration, inches 32f 



Greatest measurement at inspiration, inches 43^ 



Least measurement at inspiration, inches 28£ 



Greatest measurement at expiration, inches 40J 



Least measurement at expiration, inches 27 



Total number of chest measurements 1, 593 



Height. 



Average height of all measured, inches ... 67 



Greatest height of any measured, inches 78 



Least height of any measured, inches 59J 



Total number measured 1, 593 



Age. 



Avetage of all, years 24.21 



Greatest age, years 45 



Least age, years 17 



Total number examined 1, 593 



In taking the measurement of the chest, I used a graduateil tape ; I applied it round the chest 

 at the point where the latissimus dorsi and pectoralis major muscles begin to mount up to the 

 humerus to be inserted. This will bring the tape about an inch below (h(^ nipples. I am aware 



