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Title: Nutrition and growth in children
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Emerson, William R. P. (William Robie Patten), b. 1869
Subjects: Children Growth
Publisher: New York, London, D. Appleton and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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d tests should be made. Thisis a not infrequent cause of malnutrition, andthese tests are the best helps we have in arrang-ing a diet on which the child will gain. Im-paired ability to digest and assimilate foodunder this condition calls for longer rest pe-riods and special guarding against over-fatigue. Defects at Various Ages.—In a recent studyof 602 children, ranging ;in age from 2 to 15years, we found an average of six defects perchild. No evidence was shown of any particularperiod in which there is a greater tendency todefect, as there was remarkable uniformity inthe number of defects at all the ages included. The significance of various defects may vary,however, with the age of the child. Because ofthe small size of the naso-pharynx, for example,an excess of adenoid tissue may be a seriousdanger during infancy and the pre-school age,while tonsils do not as a rule become infectedbefore the age of five or six. Failure to gain inweight is often one of the earliest and most re- 34
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Figure 0. deformity and malnutrition The true condition of those two school girls was brought out hv the physical-growth examination in a nutrition class conducted by thf Elizabeth McOormick Memorial Fund in Chicago. The usual medical inspection in schools docs not discover such basic defects of growth. PHYSICAL-GROWTH EXAMINATION liable signs of absorption from infected tissue,and the early removal of diseased adenoids andtonsils is important in preventing pyelitis andendocarditis as well as other serious complica-tions of the acute infectious diseases. The Examination Form.—All the defectsmost commonly found are printed on the exam-ination form used in our nutrition classes, andthese are simply underlined as the examinerproceeds. The completeness of the form enablesthe parent or nutrition worker to check up therecord and see that no detail is omitted. Theadvantages of this method of examination bothin private practice and hospital work, may besummarized as follows: 1. Records beco

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