A recent bulletin from the Surgeon-General's Office discusses the methods followed and the results secured in the physical examination of the first million draft recruits. The initial selected draft of 1917 was the first opportunity that this country had had in half a century to make a census of the physical constitution of its people. It is doubtful whether any physical survey in the history of the country is comparable to it. Approximately 10,000,000 men from 21 to 30 years of age were registered. Of these, 2,510,000 were examined physically by the local draft boards prior to Dec. 15, 1917. Of this number, 730,000, or approximately 29 per cent., were rejected on physical grounds. Between Dec. 15, 1917, and Sept. 11, 1918, 3,208,446 men were examined by local draft boards. Out of these two groups, approximately a million men were sent to the mobilization camps and there reexamined. The results