GENERAL SURVEY OF THE HOT SPRING CURATIVE TREATMENT AT SPA IN THE TOHOKU DISTRICT:III GENERAL SURVEY OF THE HOT SPRING CURATIVE TREATMENT AT SEMI SPA

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A general survey was made of balneal curative treatment at Semi Spa in Yamagata Prefecture and the following results were obtained:1) Spa visitors are mostly men and women more than fifty years old. They are mostly from Yamagata Prefecture and southern parts of Akita Prefecture.2) 64% of the Spa visitors are those who are engaged in agriculture.3) 38.9% of the visitors have come for balneal therapy, those with neuralgia being largest in number, followed by those with disorder of the digestive organs, those with gynecological diseases, those with rheumatism, those with high blood pressure and those with asthma.4) At Semi Spa one round of curative treatment requires five days, and most of the Spa visitors remain there for two to three rounds of curative treatment, that is, they stay there for ten to fifteen days.5) 74.5% of the visitors bathe in the hot spring four to six times a day and 13.6% bathe more seven times a day.6) 23, 9% of them drink hot spring, 7) Only 5.0% heve come to the Spa under doctor's directions, showing how unconcerned physicians in general are about balneal therapy.8) 18.1% of them have been conscious of the bathing reaction, symptoms of which are headache, being largest in number, constipation and languor in the body and others.
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