AN INVESTIGATION CONCERNING THE INCIDENCE OF ILLNESS IN A FORESTRY-VILLAGE (NAGURI-MURA, SAITAMA PREFECTURE)
III. SYMPTOMS FREQUENTLY COMPLAINED BY RURAL PEOPLE
1959 Volume 8 Issue 2-3 Pages 155-171
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1959 Volume 8 Issue 2-3 Pages 155-171
This is a study on the incidence, during the whole month of May, 1958, of 11 different kinds of symptoms associated with the so-called Nofusho (a kind of farmers' occupational syndrome) among the inhabitants of Naguri-mura, Saitama Prefecture, a village where they make livelihood almost exclusively from forest management. It covered 2099 persons, the entire population of the village excluding the infants less than 9 years of age. The survey was made by means of personal interviews at their own homes. Taking into consideration the outcome of the study on the incidence of diseases conducted concurrently also by means of door-to-door visits, especially paying attention to the cases who were not brought to doctors' attention, the following conclusion was obtained.
1. The incidence of respective symptoms was: stiffness of shoulders 29.4%, lumbago. 20.6%, joint pain 14.2%, pyrosis 13.0%, paraesthesia 12.2%, vertigo 11.5%, nocturia 11.0%, cold limbs 8.9%, and so on.
2. Those who complained one or more symptoms associated with Nofusho turned out to be 50.0% in males and 55.1% in females.
3. Tentatively classifying those who had 3 or more symptoms as Naushei cases, the incidence of Nausho was 18.6% in males and 22.4% in females-i. e. more common in females.
4. The total number of days within the month on which those on and above 40 years of age actually suffered from such symptoms were: not more than 5 days with half of the patients, and their sufferings were deemed as temporary, but in case of the remaining half, they continued for more than 20 days.
