Medical Studies on a Comparatively High and Cold Village (Soehimura, Chiisagata-gun, Nagano Prefecture)

Report I. Outline of the Jnvestigated District

Abstract

Characteristics of the investigated village should be explained first to study an agricultural village from the medical viewpoint. The author reported the investigated results on fundamental matters of Soehimura, Chiisagatagun, Nagano Prefecture. The village belongs to the high and cold zone, and can be called “a comparatively high and cold zone”. The main agriculture there is rice-crop. Population in 1956 was 4, 631 (908 households). Analysis was done on materials obtained from various viewpoints.