UNITED STATES ARMY REJECTION EXPERIENCE, 1910-1915 

 NATIVE WHITES 



Per Cent. 

 Examined 



1. Causes not Physical 1.86 



2. Venereal Diseases 1.19 



3. Heart Diseases 1.06 



4. Ear Diseases and Defective Hearing 0.96 



5. Eye Diseases and Defects of Vision 0.83 



6. Flatfoot 0.58 



UNITED STATES ARMY REJECTION EXPERIENCE, 1910-1915 

 FOREIGN-BORN WHITES 



Per Cent. 

 Examined 



1. Causes not Physical 4.08 



2. Ear Diseases and Defective Hearing 1.05 



3. Heart Diseases 0.91 



4. Eye Diseases and Defects of Vision 0.77 



5. Venereal Diseases 0.75 



6. Flatfoot 0.71 



The most important difference met with is the decidedly higher 

 ratio of rejections among the foreign-born on account of causes not 

 physical, which in all probability are closely related to age and pre- 

 vious military experience. The age factor also probably explains the 

 lower ratio among the foreign-born of rejections on account of vene- 

 real diseases, while conversely the possibility of previous military ex- 

 perience has a bearing upon the somewhat higher rejection ratio for 

 flatfoot. 



CAUSES OF REJECTION— FILIPINO AND PORTO 

 RICAN RECRUITS 



Of exceptional interest are the rejection statistics of native Filipinos 

 and native Porto Ricans, limited, however, for the present purpose to 

 the period 1912-15. Prior to 1912 only causes responsible for more 

 than one rejection per annum were reported, so that a consolidation 

 of the statistics for the earlier period would be misleading. 



UNITED STATES ARMY REJECTION EXPERIENCE, 1912-1915 



FILIPINOS 



Per Cent. 

 Examined 



1. Eye Diseases and Defects of Vision 0.85 



2. Heart Diseases 0.78 



3. Tuberculosis 0.72 



4. Causes not Physical 0.66 



5. Underweight 0.57 



6. Ear Diseases and Defective Hearing 0.41 



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