Show I I Daily Health Service Parentage Must B Bb Be Considered in in Weight Weighty Growth I B By DR MORRIS 1 FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Medi cat cal Association tIon and of the Health Magazine The child who is outgrowing his clothes may not naturally be making proper growth at alL His development develop develop- meat ment must be a uniform and natural development in order to make him a normal child All children are not o of course built alike The child who comes of at a family family family fam fam- ily of slender build and small bones will vill probably weigh less than the thea a average for his age if il he comes of a family of broad build and big bones he will probably weigh more The body build of the chUd child should be evaluated in terms of his family con can Between 1 and 6 C years of age the wei weight ht of the child is nearly doubled A child weighing 20 pounds at 1 year of age should weigh almost 40 at 6 years of oC age The Toe height increases about 12 Inches from the age of 1 I to the age of 6 or about three inches a year The child of 6 will seem to have a ahe ahead ahead head d large in proportion to its body because at the age of 6 the skull is almost as large around as that of a he grown person and its brain brin weighs just about as 15 much as does the brain of ot the grownup B By this age the tissue of the brain brail has las developed sufficiently in amount but not quality ty During Durin the next few years habits will be formed and ability to o think and work intellectually wilc willbe will wil be c developed While the body and the brain arc are growing rowing so rapidly they do not adapt adap themselves easily casily to shock food deficiencies de de- de or similar extraordinary strains The heart as pointed out by Dr William Palmer Lucas grows tour four times heavier in the first five anc and one half years ears of life because its muscles mus cles des thicken in order to accommodate circulation during excess motion am and activity that the child will during the next few tew years Obviously the heart should be protected protected protected pro pro- during its il period of rapid growth from attack by various diseases diseases dig dis dis- dis eases such as influenza scarlet fever fe measles and diphtheria which place In themselves a severe stress on th the body's resistance The one way definitely known t to protect the heart against strain is t to rest sufficiently Therefore a child with a fever o or with the beginning of any of the diseases dis dis' cases eases that have been mentioned should immediately be put to bed and kept in bed until free from increased tem tem- |