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From the material collected at an induction board, the authors confirm the psychiatric observation that tattoos are often indicative of 'constitutional psychopathic states'. The rejection rate among tattooed men (48 per cent) is almost twice as high as in untattooed men (28 per cent). The short and mainly statistical paper hardly comments on the many problems which the custom of tattooing presents to psychoanalysis.