Abstract
"Changing concepts of medical responsibility for young children" are appropriate opening words in this new guide for physicians and child health conference personnel, published by the Committee on Child Health of the American Public Health Association. Since the establishment of the first well-baby clinics near the end of the nineteenth century, taking a well child between birth and school age to a private physician for periodic health checkup has become a traditional part of the American scene. The original purpose of the clinics was to give babies clean milk that would prevent diarrhea and to have them immunized against diphtheria.
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