Nutrition and growth in children (1922) (14597641670)

Dorothea, aged 11, underweight 21%

Identifier: nutritiongrowthi00emer (find matches)

Title: Nutrition and growth in children

Year: 1922 (1920s)

Authors: Emerson, William Robie Patten, 1869-

Subjects: Children Growth Child Nutrition

Publisher: New York, London : D. Appleton and company

Contributing Library: University of California Libraries

Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive

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e simple procedureof weighing and measuring forms the basis ofselection. Classes of not more than 20 childreneach are formed from those whose weight isseven or more per cent below the average. Eachchild is then given thorough physical, mental,and social examinations, as previously de-scribed, and receives such advice and instruc-tion as his condition requires. The object ofthe class is to check up the results of the in-structions given, and to make further recom-mendations as they may be needed. A weight chart is made out for each child,with his name, age, height, and weight at thetop, and a line showing the average weight forhis height. Since a normal increase in bothweight and height is to be expected throughoutthe growing period, this average weight linedoes not represent a fixed number of pounds,but is a curve allowing for an expected increaseof from three to thirteen pounds per year, ac-cording to the age of the child. His actualweight line is made by connecting the dots rep- 184

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Figure 27. the case of Dorothea, before treatment Dorothea, afred cloven, hecamo tired on slislit exertion, so tired that Ittook her nearly an hour to dress in the morninsr. She would sit anddream, rarely smiled, and her face looked distressed. She passed theschool medical inspection, hut was iiiven a tonic by her familyphysician. The hospital diajinosls was No disease. The nutritiondiai^nosis was : underweight _! per cent : naso-pharynfTPal obstruction :cervical adenitis; carious teeth : spinal curvature; fatigue posture.Nutrition treatment was begun with the resultshown in Figure 28. THE NUTRITION CLASS resenting his first weight and the subseqi^entweekly weighings. 2ii2izjiiizz :jiiiji ^:ji li i» __ ._ _ (1 _ ___ ^ _J ^iz :_::: ::. .: ::::__ :::: : is3^ : .\ )i::_!s^^ _ : :~::: i: . .. „Vi - \t- - - - - - ^ --i . - . ia_ z.z : _s*- - sfc :: 3z .: : 5 J£ _ _. 21 -- - : - it :«:: *- , „ 3*~ ,„/^-.-* utu^^i ... ..ji. _ _ - - --ti- - -. .. i. S^ _.. _.. _S_ 3i:~! jZ! I-II.i :.

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