All applicants for the Postal Service must have this certificate executed.
Questions 1, 2, 3, 7, 8, 9, and the parenthetical part of question 13, are not required in the case of female applicants.
This certificate need not be executed for examinations at second and third class post offices. When the result of examinations at such offices is determined, the highest four eligibles will be required to furnish the certificate.
Applicants for the Postal Service (male and female) who are defective in any of the following-named particulars will not be appointed by that Department: Deaf-mutes, hunchbacks, persons having defective hearing, sight, or speech; persons totally blind or blind in one eye; one-armed, one-handed, or one-legged persons, or those having crippled arms or legs, and those suffering from asthma, consumption, or hernia. The applications of such persons will, therefore, not be accepted.
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1. What is the applicant’s exact height in his bare feet? (The physician must himself measure and weigh the applicant.)
2. What is the applicant’s exact weight in his ordinary clothing, without overcoat or hat?
3. Did you yourself weigh and measure the applicant?
4. What is the condition of the applicant’s sight? (If possible, the test should be made with Snelen’s cards, and expressed in twentieths.)
If the applicant has any defect of sight in either eye, describe fully.
Is the defect in sight corrected by the use of glasses?
5. What is the condition of the applicant’s hearing? (State the distance, in feet, at which he can hear the ticking of a closed watch held in the open hand, testing each ear with the other plugged.)
If he has any defect of hearing of either ear describe fully.
6. What is the condition of the applicant’s speech? If he has any defect of speech describe fully.
7. What is the condition of the applicant’s limbs?
If he has any defect in either arm or in either leg describe fully, and state to what extent it interferes with the proper function of the limb.
(Varicose veins, ulcers, or any deformity should be specially reported.)
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8. Has the applicant any rupture?
9. Has the applicant varicoce............