Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 236, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 October 1917 — Surgeons at Camp Taylor Are Culling Out the Unfit. [ARTICLE]

Surgeons at Camp Taylor Are Culling Out the Unfit.

, Louisville Ky., Oct. 19.—0 f the drafted men in the first three quotas sent to Camp Zachary Taylor from Indiana, Kentucky afid part of Illinois, 27,970 remain. There are, in addition, 1,300 officers and about a hundred men at the remount station. The number discharged for physical disability to date is 1,197. The list of rejections is not complete, however, and small additions are being made almost daily. The men with the most apparent defects were discharged soon after their arrival here, but the cases of others have been passed on after more careful examination by surgeons. As each quota has reached camp a number of cripples, mental defectives or men with physical defects so apparent that it would seem no examination could have missed them have been set aside. Then the surgeons have gone at the task of thoroughly examining the remainder. Lt-Col. John H. Allen, the division surgeon, and his staff, have emphasized the point that no matter how willing a man is to serve, if he can not pass the physical examination it is unfair to the other men to include him in the army. The time will come when the lives of many men may depend on any single soldier and for that man to have poor eyesight, poor hearing, a bad heart, or any one of a hundred other things might result in a heavy loss. S’*