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ss 2) ARMED FORCES INDUCTION STATION ~" 113TH INFANTRY ARMORY SUSSEX AVENUE AND JAY STREET NEWARK 4, N. J. a 4 2 December 1943 Jt/eak Subject: Supplementary Information, Frank A, Sinetra, To s Commandine General, Second Service Command, Army Service Forces, Governors Island, New York, 4, New York, ATTENTION: . Surgeon. ; Sob 1. Svpplementing the telephonic conversation of 27 and 2% December ard work sheet of the physical examination of Frank A, Siffetra, , the following information is submitted: (a) Selectee stated that atbirth he sustained an injury ™ below the left ear, presumably from the blade of forceps. In his early childhood he hed severel mastoid operations and subseovuently has hed frequent and repeated attacks of "running ear" on the left side, the last having occvrred within the past several months, Ee also stated Hi that he often suffered from "head noises" on the left side. i (b) Exeminetion of the external ear revealed that the lobule had been removed and there was much post avricular searification, including what were probably incisional scars of the previovsly mentioned mastoid surgery. The external auditory canal was nerroved and somewhat : deformed and there was a considerable ovantity of inspissated wax pre- . sent. The tympanum was seen to contain a perforation. X-Eays of the _ left mastoid area revealed a "sclerozing mastoiditis", (c) During the psychiatric interview the patient stated thet he was ‘neurotic, afraid to be in ecrewds, afraid to go in elevator, makes him feel thet he would want to ren when svrrovnded by peorle. He hed somatic ideas and headaches and has beer very nervous for four or five yeers. Wakens tired in the A.iM., is run down and undernourished’, The examining psychiatrist concluded that this selectee suffered from psychonevrosis and was not acceptable material from the psychiatric - viewpoint. Inasmuch as the selectee was*to be rejected on an organic > basis, namely, (1) Perforation of left tympanum : (2) Chronic mastoiditis, left, the diagnosis of psychonevrosis, severe was not added to the list. Notation of emotional instability was mode instead. It was felt! that this would avoid undue unpleasantness for both the selectee and the induction service, . For the Commanding Officer: s/JOSEPH WEINTROB, ) JOSEPH «EINTROB, A CERTIFIED,THUE copy: 2 4 - 244129~9 Captain, H.C., Chief Medical Officer. LECLOSULE