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Show 24 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [ BULL. 42 During midsummer children over 12 years of age get thirty days' vacation; under 12 years; sixty days. Those whose homes are far away, and some exceptional cases, remain at the school the entire summer. During the writer's visit there were at the school 125 boys and 95 girls who were without vacation. According to the girls' matron, freedom beyond that allowed by the rules, is afforded the girls whenever possible; this is left largely to the discretion of the matron. During the free intervals the children walk about the grounds of the school, or sit under the palms, and some scatter over the near neighborhood. STATISTICAL DATA FOR TRIBES VISITED In recording the cases of tuberculosis found in the tribes described above, subjects having pulmonary symptoms were divided into those in whom the presence of tubercle bacilli, or the physical condition and history of the patients, allowed no doubt as to the nature of the disease, and those as to whom the diagnosis was not entirely certain. Scrofulous glands were classified under three heads, namely: ( 1) Had suppurated, but were now healed. ( 2) Suppurating when observed. ( 3) Had not suppurated. Under the last heading were included only those in whom the enlarged glands were visible. The number of cases in which some enlargement was perceptible is much greater, but not possible of exact determination. Cases in which the person examined, or his relatives, gave a history of enlargements which had not suppurated and W3re no longer perceptible, had to be excluded from the statistics; for, on closer questioning, it was often found that the enlargements were of other than scrofulous nature, while in other instances their character remained uncertain. TABLE 4.- Results of examination ( 1908) of family groups Data obtained. Number of family groups examined Number of deaths from tuberculosis c from pulmonary tuberculosis per 1,000 of population Number of individuals in family groups examined male female Number of cases of phthisis positively established percentage of cases examined male percentage a Examination in July. & Examination in August. 100 12 11 8.0 403 197 206 16 4- 0 8 1 1 \ - 5b O 100 67 51 12.4 428 200 228 21 4- 9 9 4.5 JQ ** Qulri aie 15 62 29 33 3 4- 8 1 3.4 05 Hup 87 6 4 9.4 331 153 178 9 2.7 4 2.6 u 5o t£; 11 £ 3 3 79 7 6 12.5 357 185 172 15 4-* 7 S. 8 c During fiscal year 1907- 8. |