1944

Pepper subcommittee of Senate Committee on Education and Labor published findings documenting widespread deficiencies in prewar medical care: of 22 million men of military age, 40% could not meet requirements of general military service; up to May 1, 1944, 35.2% of total registrants rejected in WWII failed because of nervous and mental diseases compared to 12% in WWI (Burrow, 297-99).