1971 Volume 20 Issue 3 Pages 119-123
Since 1966 a movement for protecting health has been pushed forward in Akanma District, Higashi-Uwa-Gun, Ehime Prefecture, under the community program of health protection.
As a result of the medical examination, which was carried out in August, 1968, it became clear that out of the farmers who annually went cities to work 62.7 per cent were diseased and 68.9 per cent were latently diseased. Compared with the other inhabitants of the district, of whom 68.5 per cent were diseased and 62.6 per cent were latently diseased, they were lower in the rate of the diseased and higher in the rate of the latently diseased. At the same time we investigated the living and labor conditions of these farmers.
To reach the real solution of the problem in future it will be necessary that the community program of health protection should be carried out based on the subjecthood of the people in the district. In order to protect the health of the people in Akanma District we shall need the movement fitting with the actual conditions of the district and pushed under the leadership of the people themselves. The solution of the problem on health of the farmers going to cities will also become possible in this movement.
At the same time we would demand the active encouragement by the administrative organs.
