Community Study of Anemia in a Village of Nanyo (Southern Area), Ehime Prefecture

An examination of anemia has been carried out for 466 pupils of Aiji Elementary School and Aiji Lower Secondary School in Hiromicho, Ehime Prefecture.The cases of anemia became more and more frequent as the age of the pupils advanced, and this, we think, is closely connected with the distorted dietary life which is forced upon the people in rural areas in Japan by the repid change of living conditions there.For measures to counter the frequent occurrence of anemia among pupils it is most important to establish a close cooperation between the school health protection and the community health protection and to pursue the community program of health protection.