Show many def C round ILA government bureau reports on study of of pre school age at gary ind washington large percentages ot of undernourishment and physical defects were found in n a group of young children of gary ind by the united states department of labor through the childrens bureau the gary study la Is tho the first In tion alon by the bureau of tile the neglected age ot of childhood bet between veen babyhood and school two reports have boon been written on the results ot of this study the first pulled called physical stanja of preschool pre school children was issued last year the bf gacond cond called childr ni n ot of arc sc school hoot age la in gary ind tind dealing with general child welfare conditions especially nutrition Is now a press results of the second study show the poverty ot of diet among nearly all tile the children diets of children classified the diets of children all from two to seven years were classified into five groups A B 0 D and B D according to their adequacy and suitability for children ot of these years of the all A diet the report says the A diet Is not one difficult ot of attainment it Is merely any diet capable of oc meeting the blodys needs and administered with some consideration tor for the childs age rind development moreover such a diet need not be nn expensive one milk whole cereal e a and fruit or vegetable dally daily being sufficient clent to allow a diet to qualify in this group and it Is the easiest possible kind of diet to prepare this being tile the case it might be expected that tile the largo large majority of the children would fall into the A diet group these facts notwithstanding only 25 of tile die children less than halt half of 1 per cent of the total number were thus fortunate furthermore the number classed as having IV diets probably adequate in food requirements though unsuitable in character and including but a pint of milk was likewise small amounting to 85 per cent of the whole group less than 10 per cent of the children studied til lit other words were receiving diets which appeared adequate to their needs almost three times this number per cent had diets 0 whose adequacy was highly questionable and nearly two thirds of tire group coa per cent were found to have diets plainly incapable of covering all their bodily requirements per cent being in the D group and 21 91 per cent 5 times the percentage of 0 As in the extremely inadequate H group foods analyzed in detail the report analyzes in detail the use of certain staple foods among the children for instance only per cent ot of all the children dren were getting a pint of milk a day and per cent had no milk nilla qt it all to drink two thirds of the entire group were found to drink habitually find and 40 per cent to have it more than once a day milk Is not the only desirable food which was little used 04 the report states since vegetables fru fruits its cereals W and lacking eggs were likewise conspicuously the extreme poverty of the diets Is further shown by the fact that nearly neared halt per cent of them lack lacked ed as many ns as four of the foods usually included in a childs diet I 1 slightly over halt half of the children studied were given phy physical sigal examinations cat per cent found to have decayed teeth a 0 per cent had bone detects defects which M re the lisull of a deficiency diet ohl 48 per cent had no defects tit nt all over r a third had more than five distinct physical detects children with adequate doffs classed as A and B made a better showing allowing than the rest of 0 the group over four times ns as high a percentage of these children were free from de facts ns as of the children receiving deficient diets classed as D and E U the report also analyzes other con editions affecting children of this age including community conditions child care and hygiene and dental care |