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

  • United States. Children's Bureau.
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1927
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    REFERENCES ON THE PHYSICAL GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT OF | THE NORMAL CHILD SECTION I. GENERAL GROWTH IN WEIGHT AND HEIGHT 1 Adams, Samuel S.: “The systematic weighing of infants, a guide to normal growth.” Am. J. Obst. [New York], vol. 54 (1906), pp. 832- 842. An article on the necessity of systematic weighing of infants, illustrated by eight charts on infant growth from the author’s practice at the Washington Hospital for Foundlings. 2 Adsersen, H.: “ Meddelelser om nyfédte Bérns Vaegt og Laengde” [Com- munications in regard to newborn children’s weight and length]. Bibliotek for Laeger [Copenhagen], ser. 8, vol. 5 (1904), pp. 248-260. The probabilities of seasonal and geographical influences on birth weight and length are discussed with a view to stimulating interest in the problem. Five graphs and two tables, made up from material obtained from Danish and German lying-in hospitals, show seasonal and geographical variations in the size of the newborn. It is pointed out that there is a seasonal difference which varies with sex and with geographical location of place of birth. 8 Affleck, G. B.: “A minimum set of tentative physical standards for chil- dren of school age.” Pedagogical Seminary [Worcester], vol. 27 (1920), pp. 3824-353. A study of the literature on physical standards, with a collection of tables from various investigators (Hastings, Pyle, Emerson, Woodrow, Smedley, and Crampton) to be used by parents, teachers, school nurses and physicians, and by investigators as a basis for further work. Bibliography. 4 Ahlfeld, F.: Uber Ernabrung des Siuglings an der Mutterbrust [Nutri- tion of the Breast-fed Infant]. Leipzig, 1878. 45 pp. Investigation of progress of weight of one child from the fourth to the twenty-sixth week of life and of the quantity of breast milk taken by the child during that time. Comparisons are made with a few other writers on the same subject. 5 Aitken, William: On the Growth of the Recruit and Young Soldier. facmillan & Co., London, 1887. 288 pp. A treatise by a professor in the British Army Medical School designed to give recruiting officers scientific information by which the fitness of boys and men for military service may be determined. The subject of the military fitness of boys under 20 years of age is given particular attention in chapters on the development of the vones and internal organs, and emphasis is laid on the necessity for carefully established standards of height, weight, and chest girth at the various ages. Appendixes give schedules of measurements, and Army regulations. 6 Albitzki, I. A.: “O vliyanii shkoli na fizicheskoyie razvitie” [On the effect of school on physical development]. Vrach [St. Petersburg], vol. 11 (1890), pp. 695-698 ; 726-728 ; 744-747. Account of 4,145 measurements of 1,462 school boys, aged 8 to 23 years, to ascertain effect of school on physical development. Height, chest circum- ference, weight, lung capacity, and muscular force were obtained, usually at the beginning and end of the academic year. Most of the boys were measured two or more times. Findings are discussed and compared with those of other writers. Several tables and diagrams are presented. 7 Allaria, G. B.: “ Ricerche antropometriche sulla crescenza delle fanciulle povere” [Anthropometrical studies of the growth of poor giris], Il Ramazzini [Florence], vol. 6 (1912), pp. 60-86. The author studied 652 girls employed in urban industrial establishments, 420 in cotton factories in a rural district, and 158 girls of well-to-do families. Their ages varied from 12 to 21 years. He gives for each of these groups and for each year of age the height, weight, lung capacity, hemoglobin content of the blood, muscular force, longitudinal and transyersal diameters of the skull, cephalic index, and bisacromial diameter. All these measurements were higher for the well-to-do girls than for the poor girls. This superior physical de- velopment of the well to do the author attributes to their more favorable social and domestic environment and the fact that they are free from the bad