References on the physical growth and development of the normal child.

  • United States. Children's Bureau.
Date:
1927
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    of the Physiology of Harly Childhood]. Paris, no. 31, 1867, 255 pp. Thesis for medical degree (University of Paris). author reports the results of his oan abiery ang a ig oe ° anne ie 4 years of age, to determine the relations which exist between the temperature the circulation, and the respiration when the child is awake and when he is asleep. The rest of the thesis is a general treatise on physiology, based on the work of other investigators. References. ‘ 10 11 138 14 15 16 [On Regular Daily Weighing of Newly Born Infants]. Basel, 1874. 48 pp. . | Account of weighing by author of 480 newborn infants at a Basel hospital. All the children were weighed immediately after birth, and in most cases the weighing was continued daily for two weeks. The report consists chiefly of statistical data obtained. by author and deals with the initial weight, physio- logical decrease, subsequent gain, effect of sex and of method of feeding. Seventeen conclusions are stated. The report contains seven charts. References. Amherst College: Anthropometric Work of Amherst College. 2 pp. (No publisher, no date.) . A study, continued for six years at Amherst College, of the physical measure- ments of 1,258 students of average development and 57 college athletes, to -show the difference, if any, between the athlete and the average man. Each examination included about 35 body measurements and several tests of strength. The athletes exceeded the average by 6.92 per cent in weight and 10.24 per cent in tests of strength. In other measurements the differences were small. , Physical Education Department: “On some relations of human stature to muscular strength.” Publications of the American Statisti- cal Association [Boston], vol. 3 (1892-98), pp. 347-349. Test measurements of the tallest 20 men and the shortest 20 men in the classes of 1889, 1890, 1891, and 1892 at Amherst College to determine whether greater muscular strength is a correlative of lesser bodily height, other con- ditions being equal. Results of the measurements are tabulated. The study shows that the correlation mentioned apparently does not exist. Anderson, W. G.: “Students in gymnasium.” The Adelphian [Brook- lyn], vol. 5, (1885), pp. 10-11. A brief article by an instructor in physical training giving comparison in weight, height, and lung capacity of students in the gymnasium classes of Adelphi Academy with standards established by Bowditch, Roberts, and others. Technique of measurements is not given. Anonymous: “Etude sur les variations de poids observées chez des enfants envoyés 4 la montagne” [Study of weight variations in ehil- dren sent to the mountains]. Bulletin médical [Paris], 1903, 17th year, pp. 849-851. Changes in weight of 519 boys and 395 girls from 3 to 14 years of age are shown by graphs. Special attention is paid to the apparent effect of mountain air on weight improvement with relation to sex, age, etc. Anonymous: “ Measurements of the Chinese.” Nature [London], vol. 78 (1908), p. 607. Average measurements of 669 Chinese boys from 10 to 24 years of age, ag to weight, height, chest (normal), chest (expanded), neck (circumference), wrist (circumference), and hips (circumference), with comparison of English boys in weight, height. and normal chest measurements, the last obtained from the British Association averages. The Chinese figures were submitted to the magazine by A. H. Crook, Queen’s College, Hong Kong. No technique is given. Anonymous: “Uber die Abhiingigkeit des Kérpergewichtes der Frucht von dem der Mutter’ [Dependence of fetal weight on the weight of the mother]. Wiener Medizinische Wochenschrift, 12th year, no. 33 (1862), p. 519. From material collected from 320 cases of pregnant women, by Dr. V. K. Gassner, formerly at the Lying-in Hospital of Munich, the author derives a law of the dependence of the mass of the fetus on the mass of the mother’s body. The woman increases in weight during last three months of pregnancy in exact relation to whole weight. A first-born child weighs less than cther children. Anthropometric Committee of the British Association for the Adqd- vancement of Science: Reports. In 1875 the British Association for the Advancement of Science appointed an anthropometric committee to collect observations on the systematic exami- nation of the heights, weights, and other physical characters of the inhabi- tants of the British Isles. This committee, with various changes in personnel functioned until 1912, when the work was discontinued. Its reports appear