book chapter

Health and growth of Aleut children

Journal of pediatrics36Published In 1950 • Pages: 149-158

By: Wilde, Edwin.

AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
A medical survey of the health and growth of Aleut children on St. Paul Island. It covers general health and the effects of health measures instituted by the government on infants and school children. The material for the study was provided by the William S. Merrill Company of Cincinnati, Ohio. The author is a medical advisor of the Fish and Wildlife Service and an Associate of the Arctic Institute of North America. With the exception of tabular and summary material which repeats the textual material, and the bibliography which includes medical sources, the entire document is included.
SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
Ontogenetic data
Physiological data
Morbidity
Public health and sanitation
cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
Aleut
HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
2007
RegionThe area the document pertains to
North America
Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
Arctic and Subarctic
Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
book chapter
Evaluation
Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
Ethnologist
Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
5: Excellent Primary Data
AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
Leila S. Small ; 1950-1956
Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
1945-1949
Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
1945-1949
Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
St. Paul Island, Alaska, United States
NotesAdditional notes
Edwin Wilde
This document consists of excerpts
LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
sg 35000009
LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
Aleuts