Table 1.

Description of inhabitant of the two study compounds in the village of Chilla ^1,2.

Age range Years	Non-beriberi compound		Beriberi compound
	Men	Women	Men	Women
<10	8	11	13	11
10–19	5	4	3	5
20–29	1	6	7	3
30–39	4	3	0	4
40–49	2	0	4	1
>50	0	1	2	2
Total	20	1	29	26
15–49	10	10	8	9

¹ Details on the two compounds were obtained in August 1994. They were selected on the basis of containing a high proportion of men in the age range 15–49 years who were the group with greatest vulnerability to beriberi in 1988;

² The compound names indicate whether symptoms of beriberi occurred (BBC) or did not occur (NBC) in 1988.