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  Other significant social changes consist...

  "Other significant social changes consist of the total substitution of bows and arrows by the blowpipe, and finally, we must also mention the almost universal awareness, by nearly all of the groups, of the desirability of modern medical treatment. Most Negritos were extremely reluctant to seek a physician's advice up to about fifteen years ago, let alone be admitted into a hospital, but today very few signs of his reluctance still remain."
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  In particular, medical services and other forms of help provided by the government during the last fifteen years or so have affected them...

  "In particular, medical services and other forms of help provided by the government during the last fifteen years or so have affected them to a much lesser degree than is the case among other groups of Orang Asli. Therefore , it seems reasonable to assume, although detailed statistics are not available, that the decline in the rate of infant mortality has been much lower among the Negritos than it has been among the Senoi or the Proto-Malays."