(2) A Central Bureau, under the control of a paid Director, 

 with a staff of assistants, including a statistical department. 



(3) A staff of trained "surveyors" or "measurers." It was 

 also proposed to train teachers as surveyors, paying them a gratu- 

 ity for their services. 



Estimates were given of the cost of such a staff, varying from £4,000 

 to £10,000 per annum. 



It was apparently intended by the Inter-Departmental Committee 

 that the anthropometric survey should be affiliated to the Local Gov- 

 ernment Board. 



If the Council is right in its anticipation that some form of general 

 military service will be maintained throughout the country, then it is 

 clear that the recommendations which were valid for the conditions 

 of 1904 do not apply to those which are likely to prevail in coming 

 years. If, however, there is a reversion to pre-war conditions, then 

 the scheme proposed by the Inter-Departmental Committee, or a mod- 

 ification of that scheme, would have to be considered. 



In the event of its being decided that the manhood of the nation is 

 in future to be registered and medically examined for military ser- 

 vice, it is clearly through the Ministry for War that a physical census 

 of the adult males would have to be carried out. It is equally clear 

 that in any case a survey of the school children would be made through 

 the Ministry of Education. Neither of these Departments of State 

 would be likely to allow a central bureau, such as is mentioned above, 

 to use their officers to carry out an anthropometrical survey. Each 

 Department would, no doubt, set up its own organization, not only 

 for the collection of data, but also for its treatment and publication. It 

 would probably, however, be possible to co-ordinate the work by 

 setting up a small 'Advisory Board, with powers to advise the respon- 

 sible Ministers as to the manner in which the survey should be carried 

 out, and to recommend, from time to time, such changes as might be 

 necessary. On such a board there would need to be two or three 

 skilled anthropologists, a statistician, and a representative from the 

 Admiralty, the War Office, the Board of Education, the Local Gov- 

 ernment Board, and the National Health Insurance Committee, re- 

 spectively. 



Scope of the Survey. — The Council feels that it is at present only 

 possible to touch upon the two other main questions that will have 

 to be considered, since they are clearly matters which must be finally 

 settled by the Advisory Board. These questions are : 



(1) The selection of sections of the population for examina- 

 tion, and the proportion which these sections must bear to the 

 population as a whole; and 



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