A Socio-biological Study on Villagers in Sakuoka-mura, Tsukuba-gun, Ibaraki Prefecture.

Abstract

In order to investigate concretely the population phenomena of a rural community from medical, social and economical viewpoints, the authoress undercook a synthetic investigation of the population phenomena in Sakuokaraura, Tsukuba-gun, Ibaraki Prefecture.
The results are as follows:
1. In Sakuoka village, the grain farming has principally been taken up, and the raising of silkworm, tobacco-plants and vegetables are subsidiaries.
2. In view of an actual status of food, clothing and habitation of the villagers, and their sanitary conditions, the authoress feels that there is growing certain consciousness of the new mode of living, while there still survive some deep-rooted traditional obstacles in their social life.
3. The authoress considers that, the medical means of the social and economical foundation must be adopted to improve the sanitary conditions to such a farm village life as this.
4. The authoress concluded that maintenance of the present living standard might depend on the change of population in this village, whether there occurs some economical improvement or not.