book chapter
Health and growth of Aleut children
Journal of pediatrics • 36 • Published 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