Nutrition and growth in children (1922) (14598313647)

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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

Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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same children examined in the nutritionclinic according to the basic method here de-scribed. The table shows first, the defects ap-pearing in the hospital diagnosis summary;second, additional defects mentioned in the gen-eral examination but not appearing in the sum-mary; third, the sum of these two columns, orall defects recorded as a result of the generalexamination; fourth, the defects found in theexamination made at the nutrition clinic; fifthand sixth, comparisons in the form of percent-ages. It will be seen that the general examinationrecorded only 44 per cent, or less than half thedefects appearing in the register of the nutri-tion clinic. When the number of defects ap-pearing in the diagnosis summary is comparedwith the nutrition record, the disparity is evengreater, the summary recording only 21 percent, or less than one-quarter of the actual de-fects. In the naso-pharyngeal group the sum-mary showed only 9 per cent of the defectsfound, and the nearest approach to the com- 40

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Figure 10. six malnourished girls This is a group at the Massachusetts General Hospital, taken as thevsat in the nutrition class in the order of their irains for a week. Theirserious expressions arc characteristic, quite unlike those of happv, wellchildren of normal weight. Ohserve the round shoulders, thin arms, andprotuberant abdomens. The physical-growth examination con-vinced their parents of the need of mmediate care. PHYSICAL-GROWTH EXAMINATION pletenoss of the nutrition examination was 47per cent in the case of teeth defects. This latter comparison with the diagnosissummary is a fair test of the two methods, be-cause the results of an examination are almostsure to be overlooked if they are not broughtdown to the summary, from which the recom-mendations are usually made. It may be urgedthat the general examination is especially con-cerned with vital organs, and consequentlyomits less serious defects, but an inspection ofthe details of the more complete examinationshows no defect

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