A third of a million showed nervous and mental incapacity for the soldier's work.

About 300,000 had tuberculosis or severe venereal disease.

About the same number had skin or teeth ailments.

Altogether, the first severe examinations weeded out as unfit for the service nearly one-third of those who were drafted.
In addition to the revelation of physical and mental defects in the average young manhood of our country, it was found by further examination that five and a half millions of our young men were illiterate.

These facts show that in the mass of people from which criminals and vicious people are recruited, large numbers have defects of body, mind, or education, which handicap them in pursuit of an honest living or in the search for helpful pleasures.