. Preventive medicine and hygiene. ade Record. (Physical Examination of Recruits for En-listment in the Navy and Marine Corps, Gov. Printing Office.) After the recruit has been sworn in, his identification records aremade. These records consist of a front and side view photograph, anyindelible marks which appear on his body (scars, moles, etc.), and theprints of all his fingers. These papers are sent on to Washington andare filed there at army headquarters as part of the record of the soldier. 1192 MILITARY HYGIENE Another paper is completed at this time and is called a descriptiveand assignme
. Preventive medicine and hygiene. ade Record. (Physical Examination of Recruits for En-listment in the Navy and Marine Corps, Gov. Printing Office.) After the recruit has been sworn in, his identification records aremade. These records consist of a front and side view photograph, anyindelible marks which appear on his body (scars, moles, etc.), and theprints of all his fingers. These papers are sent on to Washington andare filed there at army headquarters as part of the record of the soldier. 1192 MILITARY HYGIENE Another paper is completed at this time and is called a descriptiveand assignment card. This contains a complete description of thesoldier, his principal physical characteristics and the record of vaccina-tion, typhoid immunization and any other data which it is important forhis future company commander to know. It is essential, for the protection of the government, that carefulrecords be made: (a) of all departures from the normal, includingminor ones which are not considered disqualifying, and (b) of means. si- FiG. 171.—Ulnar Loop (Right Hand), Showing 65 Points of Identification. (Physi-cal Examination of Recruits for Enlistment in the Navy and Marine Corps, Office.) of identification. The first is needed as a defense against unjust claimsfor pension. The second leads to the detection of criminals, deserters,bounty jumpers, and dishonorably discharged men who enlist fraud-ulently. Vaccination.—All recruits are vaccinated against smallpox and re-quired to take the typhoid and paratyphoid prophylactic are administered to every recruit regardless of vaccination scars EECRUITS AND RECRUITING 1193 or unverified statements of previous typhoid prophylaxis. A record ismade of this worlc, so that it is always Ivnown at what time such vacci-nations have beeh given. Under special circumstances prophylactic vaccines against cholera,plague, paratyphoid, dysentery and other infections are used. Poly-valent vaccines may be used—
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