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The article presents information on some vital statistics and living conditions of a primitive peasant community in Sierra Leone. The great majority of the population belonged to the Kissi tribe one of the most primitive in Sierra Leone. The people live in dirty unventilated mud huts usually with an internal diameter of about eight feet, each housing an average of four to five people. Children go mainly unclothed, while adults wear a variety of garments of native or imported cloth, very of tea ragged and nearly always dirty. Babies are suckled until two to three years of age, but breast milk is supplemented, starting usually within the first two months, forcing, pap of rice or mashed banana down the infant's throat.