TY  - JOUR
T1  - CHinese anthropology and ethnology
AU  - Baldwin FB
Y1  - 1929/03/16
N1  - 10.1001/jama.1929.02700370067032
JO  - Journal of the American Medical Association
SP  - 919
EP  - 920
VL  - 92
IS  - 11
N2  - To the Editor: 
    —Your interesting editorial (The Journal, Dec. 22, 1928, p. 1997) leads me to add some impressions we have received as a result of our endeavors in the life insurance field of the East and some accumulated facts with reference to the Chinese people resident in China, Siam, the Philippine Islands and Indo-China.In 1926 I attempted to analyze the data on 10,000 Chinese lives presented to us for life insurance on our medical forms. The purpose of this analysis was to establish a definite scale of height and weight and blood pressure readings for a more just consideration of Chinese lives.Several years ago Dr. Cadbury of the Canton Christian College, Canton, China, carried on an investigation among the Chinese students in that institution participating in athletics. I understand that they were placed on a diet approximating that of the westerner; that is, in addition to the
SN  - 0002-9955
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.1929.02700370067032
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1929.02700370067032
ER  -