. Interstate medical journal . D 41 22 8/9 E 40 22 3/9 F 39 21 7/9 179 100Table 7. Frequency of different type> in 7 Central African symptomless: Type of Number of *. 2 Per 4/7 B 1 14 2/7 D 2 28 4/7 E 1 14 2/7 F 1 14 2/7 7 100Table 8. Frequency of different types in all barefooted subjects ex-amined. Feet symptomless: Type of Number of ^ Per 9 4/31 B 19-10 7/31 C 26 14 D 43 23 473i E 41 22 F 40 21 16/31 186 iooIn addition to the 186 barefooted individuals, I examined 45 SouthAfrican Negroes, all adult males with fun
. Interstate medical journal . D 41 22 8/9 E 40 22 3/9 F 39 21 7/9 179 100Table 7. Frequency of different type> in 7 Central African symptomless: Type of Number of *. 2 Per 4/7 B 1 14 2/7 D 2 28 4/7 E 1 14 2/7 F 1 14 2/7 7 100Table 8. Frequency of different types in all barefooted subjects ex-amined. Feet symptomless: Type of Number of ^ Per 9 4/31 B 19-10 7/31 C 26 14 D 43 23 473i E 41 22 F 40 21 16/31 186 iooIn addition to the 186 barefooted individuals, I examined 45 SouthAfrican Negroes, all adult males with functionally good feet, who hadgone barefooted up to early manhood, and had worn shoes during thelast five or six years only. Table 9 shows the frequency of the differ-ent types of arches in this group: Table 9. Frequency of different types in 45 South African symptomless: Type of arch. .A Number of individuals. . 6 Per cent. .13 3/9 B 7 15 579 C 8 17 7f9 D 7 T5 5/9 E n / 24 4/9 F 6 13 379 45 TOO 682 Yig. 1.—A few of the types of arches found in normal feet. That as great variation in the height and shape of the longitudinalarch exists in Caucasian shoe-wearers as in barefooted peoples, is shownin table 10. which is based upon the examination of 200 pairs of normal,or, at least, symptomless feet: Table 10. Frequency of different types in 200 Caucasian shoe-wear-ers. Feet symptomless: Type of- arch. . A Number of individuals. .27 Per cent. .13^ B 20 10 C 27 IZV2 1) 53 26>4 K 40 20 F 33 200 TOO LONGITUDINAL ARCH AND THE FUNCTIONS OF THE FOOT. 683 That the same is true of the American shoe-wearing Negro is shownin table n, which is based upon the examination of 100 pairs of symp-tomless feet. Table II. Frequency of different types in 100 American shoe-wear-ing Xegroes. Feet symptomless: Tvpe of arch. .A Number of individuals. . 18 Per cent. .18 B 13 13 C . .19 19 D 21 21 E 16 16 F 13 13 100 100 Table 12 shows the variation in rive sandal-wearing
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