Influence of Living Circumstances over the Health of Young Women On Red and White Blood-corpuscles of Girl Students from City and Village in Japan

Abstract

In order to know the influence of social living circumstances, i. e. life in city, life in farm village, or life of these who came from the country and are presently living in a city, occupation and financial state of family, etc., over the blood figure the writer examined approximately 3, 000 girl students who are considered to be living on normal standard of living and to be healthy.The nmber of red blood-corpuscle of city students are greater than that of country students, and the number of white blood-corpuscle is the contrary. Of the percentage of white blood-corpuscle city students have more pro-neutral white blood-corpuscles, less pro-acid white corpuscles, and less lymphatic corpuscles. No difference was observed among various occupations and among different incomes of the student's family. The writer took up the menses as one of the circumstances of the body and executed the same observation on menses: for those who have accompanying symptoms during the menses period and for those who have not, and also for each age group. Red blood-corpuscle decreased during menses period while white blood-corpuscle increased. No difference was seen among different age groups.