CONTENTS 



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i. Introduction 1 



II. General environment 2 



III. Indian population 5 



"IV. Subdivisions of the tribes 7 



Their location and physical types 7 



V. Personal environment 13 



Clothing 13 



Dwellings 15 



Occupations ' 17 



VI . Food 19 



VII. Alcoholic drinks 26 



VIII. General habits of life, character, and social condition .1 29 



IX. Physiology - 36 



Proportion of sexes 37 



Population by ages 39 



Size of families 41 



Reproduction ' 47 



Marriage 47 



Sterile women; preference of sex; gestation 51 



Labor; multiple and abnormal births; placenta; reappearance 



of menstruation 55 



Detail tables 66 



Early attention to the infant; nursing and feeding 73 



Later attention to the child; head deformation 79 



Physiological observations on children 84 



General . . 7 84 



Special studies on children , 87 



Children of known age 88 



Height 88 



Pulse and respiration 89 



Teeth 96 



Locomotion and speech 99 



Children whose age could not be ascertained 100 



Approximation of age 101 



Pulse, respiration, and temperafure 101 



Musctdar force 108 



Growth 112 



Height sub- and supra- ischia 112 



Weight 114 



Growth of the head 116 



Growth of the face 120 



Dentition considered in relation to stature 122 



Dental anomalies 123 



Puberty 125 



Adolescence in male ; beard 128 



General resume of physiological observations on the Indian 



child 129 



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