A Hygienic Investigation in Iwate Prefecture (12), Especially Concerning the Hygienic Situation of Inhabitants in a Southern Area for the Cultivation of Leaf-tabacco

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A hygienic investigation was made to have some idea of the living of inhabitants in Fujisawa Town, Higashiiwai County, Iwate Prefecture where the cultivation of leaftabacco is prevalent. 1) This part of the prefecture is situated in the southern tip of Iwate Prefecture, adjacent of Miyagi Prefecture, located in the hillock zone on the west inclined plane stretching to the Kitakami Mountain Range, and about 10 and 60% of the area are fields and forest lands respectively, with households engaged in agricultural and forestry industries accounting for 80% of the whole households. 2) As regards the atmospheric phenomenon, the yearly average temperature is 9.8 C and in January, February and March, the temperature goes down below zero, the nortnwesterly prevailing wind being fairly strong. 3) The population composition forms a triangle with the low age group as a basis and the numbers of males and females for a population of 16, 398 are 7, 968 and 8, 430 respectively and though the males outnumber females up to 5-19 year age group, this situation is reversed in the following ages, the difference being larger in conjunction with increasing ages. 4) Rate of the population in employment is 51%. 5) The crude birth rate for the 5 years from 1946 through 1956 is 21.95 per 1, 000 population and the crude death rate is 9.57 per 1, 000 population. 6) With reference to the economic situation, the average income in this area is 51.4% of that in the prefecture and those in the farmhouses and nonfarmhouses are 1011 and 38.8% respectively, the former group being better off. 7) Cultural activity is not so brisk. 8) The number of medical facilities are 7 and that of physicians is 10. Popula iion per physician is 670 and the average number of patients per day in the whole town is 375 and in farmers' slack seasons they make a visit to clinics, the majority being with chronic diseases. 9) When persons engaged in cultivation for leaf-tabacco is compared with those for pure farming. i) Income per acres in the former group is 93, 292 yen and that in the latter is 186, 404 yen, the former being more profitable. ii) The former requires labor 5 to 6 times as great as that for the latter. iii) Percent of persons in the former showing hypertension with 150mmHg or over is 18.7%, being larger than 8.7% for those in the latter and the difference is obseverd in the 30-60 year age group. 10) The results of a nutritional survey revealed the deficiency in the amount of intake of animal protein, vitamin A and colored vegetables.
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A Hygienic Investigation in Iwate Prefecture (12), Especially Concerning the Hygienic Situation of Inhabitants in a Southern Area for the Cultivation of Leaf-tabacco

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