Salt Lake Telegram | 1931-09-30 | Page 2 | 100 Homes to be Used as Laboratories by Scientists Studying Whys of Babies

1100 Homes to Be Used as Laboratories 0 By Scientists Studying Whys of Babies CLEVELAND Sept 30 Homes JP Homes of babies will become laboratories laboratories laboratories labora labora- tories for scientists of or Western Reserve Reserve Re Re- serve university who want to find out why infants grow the way they do The st study dy will begin when the babies sables arc are three months old and will last through childhood When the work is completed the scientists expect to have concrete evidence to support the theory that the physical condition of children depends more on what happens to the child chUd after It is born than has ha yet been realized Dr T. T Wingate Todd professor of or anatomy at Western Reserve and his hl associates will conduct the study another another another an an- other project of the Brush Brash foundation for the advancement of ot the human race Each child will be given physical and psychological examinations every three months the first uirt year very six Ix months until five lve years old and once every year from then on Mothers cooperating in the re research research re- re search will record such things as S whether baby had the mumps at six dx months the age when It first gr grasped objects using the thumb in opposition opposition tion to the index finger when It first spoke and when took it took its first step By these and other things will be bc noted physical condition skeletal progress tooth eruption and mental and motor development Dr Todd who will supervise Lse the skeletal and physical examinations said he particularly wants to 1 determine determine determine deter deter- mine whether the childs child's diet and prenatal conditions have any effect on bone growth Other branches of or the research will determine the in influence in- in fluence of or the sleeping posture and diet of a child under one years year on the growth of the lower jaw and teeth standards of emotional in and development development develop develop- ment and the effect of social history and environment on mental and p physical growth