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in August, 1917, for official trial. They have since been 

 thoroughly revised and importantly supplemented in the 

 light of extensive results. 



During November and December of 1917 thorough mili- 

 tary trial of these methods in four cantonments yielded re- 

 sults which led the Surgeon General to recommend to the 

 War Department the extension of psychological examining 

 to include "all company officers, all candidates for officers' 

 training camps, and all drafted and enlisted men." 



This extension was approved by the War Department in 

 January, 1918, and at the same time a Division of Psychology 

 was created in the Office of the Surgeon General to organize 

 and direct this new variety of service. 



To supply the requisite trained personnel for psycholog- 

 ical examining, a school of Military Psychology was estab- 

 lished at the Medical Officers' Training Camp, Fort Ogle- 

 thorpe, Georgia. Approximately one hundred officers and 

 three hundred enlisted men were given two months of inten- 

 sive training in this school. The instruction included, in 

 addition to training in procedures of army psychological ex- 

 amining, the courses in military drill, army paper work, and 

 medical department administration, regularly required for 

 medical officers of the army. 



The methods were carefully revised during January and 

 February, 1918, as a result of the official trial; the necessary 

 equipment to supply approximately two hundred examining 

 officers was manufactured, and the various forms of examina- 

 tion blank were printed In large editions In order that all 

 examining stations should be adequately equipped. 



Suitable buildings for psychological work were either as- 

 signed or constructed in the principal army training camps, 

 and within a few months the service was satisfactorily or- 

 ganized. 



The principal results of psychological examining may be 

 summarized statistically and their applications briefly indi- 

 cated. 



The work of mental examining was organized finally in 

 thirty-five army training camps. A grand total of 1,726,000 



