Abstract
In our previous experiments with some specimens of the blood und saliva, we found that blood types could be determind with the saliva instead of the blood accurately in one hundred percentage. The method und results had been published in the Journal of Bacteriology No. 420.
With this new method we tested blood types of 483 cases of lepers. Type A was found in 50.93%, type B in 9.94%, type A B in 5.59%, und type O in 33.54%. The proportion of blood types of healthy japanese peoples was as follows: Type A 37.51%, type B 20.97%, type AB 9.54% und type O 31.86%. Comparing the two series of percentage above described it was recognized that the frequent blood types of lepers in Japan were types A und O, while types B and AB were markedly less in number
