Health conditions and disease incidence among the Eskimos of Labrador
By: by Samuel King Hutton
Publisher: J. Looker
Published: 1925
Place of publication: Poole [Dorsetshire]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 74
Subjects: Eskimos; Public health; Health and hygiene; Inuits; Disease; Ethnology; Public Health
Description: This report was prepared after the author, a medical doctor, spent seven years among the Inuit of Northern Labrador. The book includes information on: environment in its relation to health; some effects of environment; some clinical observations; influenza; some notes on syphilis; child mortality; future of the Eskimos; and diseases known to have occurred among the Eskimos of Labrador.
Notes: "Xerox reproduction"
Table of contents: title: Chapter 1. Environment in its relation to health (climate, food, habits of life); title: Chapter 2. Some effects of environment; title: Chapter 3. Some clinical observations; title: Kallak (pustular skin eruption); title: Tendency to suppuration; title: Typhus fever; title: Tuberculosis among the Eskimo; title: The urine; title: Diseases of the nervous system; title: Hernia; title: Diseases of the eye; title: Chapter 4. Influenza; title: Chapter 5. Some notes on syphilis; title: Chapter 6. Child mortality; title: Chapter 7. The future of the Eskimos (disease & child mortality ); title: Appendix: diseases known to have occurred among the Eskimos of Labrador