[Comparative psychiatric study of recruits]

From a group of 1780 recruits, 30 recruits who had been showing behavioural disorders but had remained in army service, were compared with a control group of recruits who had never demonstrated any deviant behaviour. This was done in order to gain information of the performance of the examined persons in respect of their physical capacities, emotional patterns, learning abilities and efficiency, consumption patterns, personal contacts and sociological integration. The article describes the methodic approach and discusses the results. In conclusion, the possibility of prophylactic sociomedical activity in the school of recruits is brought up for discussion, was well as the question of their fitness for active military service.