75 



Table 31. — Summary of resnlh of dielarif f^tudiea at the Govemment Hospital for the 



Ivmne and other institutions — Contiuued. 



The studie.s reported in this bulletin are grouped in the table pre- 

 ceding according to the general conditions of the patients, since it was 

 not feasible to make distinctions that would accord at all exactly with 

 the amounts of muscular activity. The large majority of the patients 

 were not especially active, though most of the studies included a few 

 who did a small amount of light work each day, and who, b}^ the 

 custom of the institution, received a little extra ration. But, except 

 in one study, the proportion of workers to nonworkers was so small 



