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ecords of 34 girls and 44 boys
The case records were so selected that the
background seventy and durat~on of ~llness, and souoeconomlc
status were
comparable In both the groups Out of 34 g~rls. 9 (26 5%) d ~d not come for any follow
up at all while the correspond~ng f~gure for boys was 16 out of 41 (36 4%) It was also
observed that 15 out of 34 glds (44 1%) and 9 out of 44 boys (20 5%) had completed
thelr full course of followup In those who dld not come for followup, no slgnlf~cant
d~fference was observed between the 2 groups (p > 0 05) In those who completed the
full followup, there were s~gn~f~cantly more g~rls than boys (p < 0 05)
(111) Data from Government Chest Clln~c, Pondicherry
Treatment of tuberculos~s
Dunng a 1 year penod between January 1994 and December,l994. 145 g~rls and 155
boys less than 15 years of age recelved treatment for tuberculos~s at the Chest Cl~n~c.
Pondcherry
Out of 145 g~rls 107 (73 8%) and out of 155 boys 106 (684%) had
completed full treatment, no s~gn~flcant d~fference belng observed between the two
genders (p > 0 05)
7 4 4 Education and the g~rl ctlild
(a1 Ethnoqraph~c methods
The villagers were unanimous In the~r oplnlon that educat~on was equally necessary for
glds as much as for boys
Out of the 160 people who responded to the St~ctured
questlonnalre, 96 3% felt that g~rls should take up jobs wh~le only 3 8% thought that
lobs wore not essent~al for them Although most people (71 9%) were wtll~ng to send
the11 daughters outs~de the v~llage for study or work, a few (5 6%) were unwllllng to do