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CHANGES FROM FEB. 1, 1943 TO JAN. 1, 1944

CHARLES A. BAHN, M.D.

Arch Ophthal. 1944;31(2):160-161.

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At the request of the American Committee on Optics and Visual Physiology, the following changes are presented. For details the reader is referred to the original article.¹

SELECTIVE SERVICE

Sections 1, 2 and 3 are unchanged.

ARMY

In section 1, requirements indicated under the headings "Vision," "Refraction," "Color Vision" and "Muscles" are unchanged except for the following regulation, which applies to enlisted personnel, general service :

Binocular vision (both eyes open) of not less than 20/40, without glasses, provided vision in the more defective eye is not less than 20/70 without glasses, correctable or uncorrected, and provided the defective vision is not due to organic disease.

Section 2 is unchanged.

Section 3 is unchanged except for the authority for the new regulation in section 1.

Letter from the War Department, Army Service Forces, Office of the Surgeon General, Washington, D. C., Nov. 15, 1943.

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Author Affiliations
NEW ORLEANS

From the Department of Ophthalmology, Medical Center, Louisiana State University School of Medicine.

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