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

  • United States. Children's Bureau.
Date:
1927
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    verting Chinese ages to their foreign equivalents, and directions as to the personnel and equipment required for a satisfactory investigation and as to the selection and grouping of subjects complete the article. 136 Stevenson, Paul H., and Pan Ming-Tzu: ‘“ On converting Chinese ages to their foreign equivalents: A conversion formula and table of subtrac- tions.” China Medical Journal [Shanghai], vol. 40 (1926), pp. 128-1380. The authors explain the difficulties in reducing Chinese statements of age to their English equivalents, and present a table of subtractions for standard use, explaining the reethod of its derivation. 137 Tarenezky, A. I.: “ Nieskolko zamechanii po povodu antropologicheskikh izsliedovanii na zhivikh”’ [Some remarks on anthropological investi- gations of the living subject]. Vrach [St. Petersburg], vol. 10 (1889), pp. 985-986 ; 1011-1018. A detailed description of a method recommended by the author for the anthropological study of the living human being. 188 Terrien, Eugéne: “ Procédé pratique permettant d’apprécier rapidement la croissance d’un jeune enfant” [Practical method of rapidly esti- mating a young child’s growth]. Médecin praticien [Paris], vol. 1-2 (1905-6), pp. 138-15. The author gives data on weight increases of the infant and on dentition, and suggests rules for remembering data on normal growth and for judging whether a child is up to standard. 1389 Tonina, Teodoro A.: “ Seleccién de los escolares debiles” [Diagnosis of physical inferiority among school children]. La Semana Meédica [Buenos Aires], vol. 382 (1925), pt. 1, pp. 854-870; 1009-1022; 1111- 1126; 1271-1286. After a general discussion on the measurement of. school children and the diagnosis of physical inferiority, the author, who is medical inspector of a school for physically unfit children in Buenos Aires, discusses in detail the methods of examining, weighing, and measuring the children. In several tables he gives the following data for 195 boys and 137 girls ranging in age from 6 to 13 years, pupils in_ this school: Height, weight, sitting height, chest circumference, cephalic index, vital capacity, degree of muscular power, and hemoglobin. All this is given by sex and for each year of age. A separate table gives the growth per year. There are quotations from several other writers on most of these data. Several chapters are devoted to a description of methods of examination of each part of the body. 140 Tsurumi, M., and K. Nakatate: “ Critical studies of Pirquet’s nourish- ment theory, and on our new method.” Japan Medical World [Tokyo], vol. 4 (1924) pp. 87-89. By a study of 1,926 persons, children and adults of both sexes, the authors devised a modification of the Pirquet index of nutrition which is applicable to the Japanese. 141 Tuxford, A. W.: “A measure of physical development in school chil- dren.” School Hygiene [London], vol. 8 (1917), pp. 65-69. In examining school children the author applied the formula weight in grams 381—age in months height in centimeters 54 for boys and a similar formula for girls, using a different constant. These formulas are empirical, but in the author’s work they gave an average index of development from 990 to 1,010. 142 — “A nutritional index for school children.” Public Health [Lon- don], vol. 27 (1913-14), pp. 377-378. The author corrects a current height-weight index of nutrition, 100 °V weight in kilograms height in centimeters to include an age factor. the resulting formula, 100 *Vweight in grams X (age in years + 1) “height in meters X (age in years + 2) 4 ; j i i riginal, still requires correction a con-. Scr tion of eee tees calcwial and weights of children in the skation of the country where it is used. ; 148 U.S. Public Health Service, U. S. Treasury Department: Indices of Nutrition; application of certain standards of nutrition to 506 native “white children without physical defects and with “good” or “ excel- lent” nutrition, as judged from clinical evidence, by Taliaferro Clark, Edgar Sydenstricker, and Selwyn D. Collins. Reprint No. 842, Public Health Reports. Washington, 1923. 35 pp. These children were tested by three standards of weight—those of Wood, Dreyer, and Pirquet. Although the best specimens of health that could be