References on the physical growth and development of the normal child.
- United States Children's Bureau
- Date:
- 1927
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: References on the physical growth and development of the normal child. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![152 153 154 155 156 JUDGING PHYSICAL FITNESS IN CHILDREN 300 anthropometric tests; tests of physical, motor, and sensory capacity, of atten- tion and perception, description and report, association, learning and memory, suggestibility, imagination and invention, and intellectual equipment. . He quotes many tables from other observers and derives a few from his own observations of complex processes. Bibliography. Wightman, Grace S.: “ Yardsticks for measuring children.” Bulletin Chicago Municipal Tuberculosis Sanitorium, vol. 3, no. 3 (1922), pp. 10-18. The author condemns the system of determining malnutrition by height and weight alone and finds every other system in use cumbersome. She presents a ; sample of an anthropological chart and score card by which 6,000 children had been measured and 7,000 more were to be measured to arrive at a table of nutrition standards. Wilcke: “ Merktafel tiber Gewicht und Liinge der Kinder ” [Memorandum on weight and height of children]. Zeitschrift fir Medicinalbeamte [Berlin], vol. 27 (1914), p. 175. Ag aids in remembering normal weight and height of children in kilograms and centimeters, respectively, the author gives two tables. Weight of a given ‘year equals number of year times 38 plus 8 minus number of year; and height equals 80 plus number of year times 5. Wilson, May G.: “ Report of the Cornell nutrition class.” Arch. Pediat. [New York], vol. 36 (1919), pp. 37-44. One hundred and forty-seven children 1 to 16 years of age were graded by the Dunfermline classification and by the Holt-Burk-Boas nutrition standards and the two classifications compared. The physicial defects found and the gains made are given in tables. Zoja, G.: “ Misure della forza muscolare dell’uomo” [Measures of the muscular foree of the human being]. Reale Istituto Lombardo di Scienze e Lettere, Rendiconti [Milan], ser. 2, vol. 20 (1887), pp. 196- 204. : Description of methods of measuring muscular strength and instruments used for that purpose. “Proposta di una classificazione delle stature del corpo umano” [Suggested classification of the height of the human body]. Reale Istituto Lombardo di Scienze e Lettere, Rendiconti [Milan], ser. 2, vol. 14 (1881), pp. 46-54. The author complains of the lack of uniformity in the classification of the height of the human body as discusséd by various writers. To overcome this difficulty, he recommends a new system of classification devised by himself. O](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b32180135_0361.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
