General Health Of Children Research Articles

PHYSICAL FITNESS OF CHILDREN FROM DIFFERENT ECONOMIC LEVELS IN CHICAGO

For a number of years the Elizabeth McCormick Memorial Fund has been interested in the accumulation of a body of factual information on the general health and dietary practices of preschool and school age children in the Chicago area. Its regular health education program centers around a periodic examination by a pediatrician, followed by family consultations with a nutritionist. Approximately 1,500 children from six hundred families, largely from the low income levels, are examined each year in connection with this program. In 1939, with the assistance of the Work Projects Administration,1a study was begun of the records of 10,000 children who had been enrolled in the Fund's health supervision classes during the preceding decade, and plans were made for examining during the next two years a large number of children from widely different economic levels. Since then more than 7,200 children from three thousand nine hundred families have

Further Studies in Allergic Migraine:

Excerpt In a recent work on the hereditary factor in allergic diseases by one of us1, it appears that migraine is interchangeable in the linkage with asthma and seasonal hay fever, which is excelle...

The general health and mental activity of allergic children: Balyeat, R. M.: Am. J. Dis. Child. 37: 1193, 1929

The general health and mental activity of allergic children: Balyeat, R. M.: Am. J. Dis. Child. 37: 1193, 1929

THE SCHOOL CHILD

THE CITY OF TORONTO is primarily an industrial center, with a population of over 600,000, largely of Anglo-Saxon origin, although a very definite percentage is of foreign extraction. A tangible interest in the general health of school age children was evidenced by the local educational authorities in May, 1910, when they appointed a superintendent of nurses and two assistants. Permissive legislation had been passed the previous year by the Provincial government, making school medical inspection possible. The appointment was typical of the ideas prevalent at the time regarding the conduct of such service. It was an experiment and viewed by many as a needless and meddlesome innovation. Two part-time physicians and two more nurses were added in September of the same year. The results accomplished are shown by the report of the director, for the year ending December 31, 1910, which is as follows: