CO129-415 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [12] — Page 515

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Similarly, the mobility of the joints of the lower extremity are carefully tested.

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After this the heart and lungs may be re-examined, especially if thero is a suspicion that defects may become more evident after the exercise gone through in the examination as to the mobility of the joints of the upper and lower extremities.

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The hearing of each car is separately determined.

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The vision of each eye is separately determined.

No one requiring glasses to bring his vision up to normal should be passed.

#should be the standard for distant vision:-

The near vision should be satisfactory; i. e, normal, and not myopic or

hypermetropic requiring glasses for its correction.

Special Disqualifications:--

Poor physique; evidence of tubercular disease, syphilis.

The rejection of men of poor physique, even if there be na definite lesi or abnormality, is of the greatest importance.

Such men are the first to succumb to hardship and to contract disense, while their lack of vital resistance renders their case mortality unduly high.

The Skin All chronic contagious and parasitic diseases, extensive deep and

adherent cicatrices, chronic ulcers, vermin.

The Head. Abnormally large head, considerable deformities the ensequenze of fractures; serions lesions of the skull, the results of emplicate i wounds, or the operation of trephining, caries, injuries of cranial nerves,

The Spine. Carics; lateral or other curvature and any of the diseases of this

region.

The Ears Deafness of one or both ars; catarrhal and purulent form of aeure

and chronic otitis media, polypi &c.

The Eyes. Loss of an eye, total loss of sight of either eye; conjunctival affections, including trachoma; entropion; opacities of the cornea; ptrus ygium if extensive; simbismus; conical cornica; cataract; loss of crystu- line lens. Diseases of the chrymal apparatus, ectropion,

Ptosis; incessant spasmodic motion of the lids; adhesion of the lid; muscalar asthen pia; nystagmus; any affection of the giabe of the ey or its contents; defective vision; anomalies of accommodation and relruction.

The Mouth and faces. Hare lip Mutilation from wounds, barns or disease. Deformities of either jaw; loss of teeth so as to interfere with proper mastication of food; adhesion of congue, malignant disease of; chronic ulerations; fi-sitres or perforations of hard palate; salivary or bucen-unsel fistulae; hypertrtrophy of tou-ils sufficient to interfero with respiration or phonation.

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