THE FATE AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE IMMATURE AND OF THE PREMATURE CHILD

Abstract

CONTENTS PART II Physical Development of the Immature Child Standing height Sitting height Weight Skull Chest Pelidisi Conclusions Mental Development General considerations Static functions Speech School Mental and nervous disturbances Development of Puberty The Influence of Acute and Chronic Diseases on the Development of the Immature Child Congenital Malformations and Anomalies Other Developmental Anomalies Prophylaxis and Treatment Summary and Conclusions PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE IMMATURE CHILD About 55 per cent of immature infants live until the end of the first year; 52 per cent reach the school age, and 51 per cent reach the age of puberty; in other words, the mortality after the school age is not any higher than for mature children. This is not true, unfortunately, of the physical as well as of the mental development of the immature infant. Ylppo, in his calculations, always referred to the conception age, i. e., to the intra-uterine and extra-uterine