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Show MANY CHILDREN LACK WEIGHT Traveling Clinic Finds Nearby Half Undernourished Of of total of 4 44-vhildron of school j ace examined by experts of the trav-j e'ing clinic of the Utah PuMic Health , association, up to a recent date 'JO- or : nearly iO per cent were found to he more than 7 per cent under weight, j This menus that this number of the I schoolchildren examined were under ! nourished cither through lack of food, ! lack of proper feeding or lack of prop- er health habits. i It is explained by officials of the I health association that these figures do not mean that ."0 per cent of the school children in Utah are under nourished or under weight, because as yet. only a small percentage of the school children., of Utah have been examined, but it does mean that of the number visiting the clinic and having examinations made, that p..-centage p..-centage were found to be under weight, which is an indiction that there is a large amount of malnutrition among tlie school children of Utah. The National Tuberculosis association associa-tion has just announced that it has figures indicating that there are more than oiKl.oo malnourished children in the schools of the country. It is but reasonable to suppose that Utah has its proportion of these, it is pointed out by officials versed in this subject. The conditions developed by the traveling clinic of the health association, associa-tion, in the districts it has developed, proved beyond a doubt that malnutrition malnu-trition does exist among the school children and malnutrition is t Tie primary pri-mary cause for practically all disease, in t hat it renders the body of the victim vic-tim unable to combat infection and contagion. The national Tuberculosis association, associa-tion, as a means of overcoming this malnutrition among school children is making every effort to have the mod ern health crusade an effective and in foresting method of teacntng good health habits and proper eating, in-augrafed in-augrafed in the public schools of the country. This same means of combatting malnutrition mal-nutrition and disease among the school children of Utah is being fostered aim furthered by the Utah Public Health association as apart of its general health program in the state. Last year more than 12.000 school children in the slate were enthusiafie members of the modern health crusade and learned valuable lessons of how to build up their health, how to eat, what to eat. how to sleep how to play nnd how to do all those things essential to proper development of their bodies. This method of teaching health habits in a way that brings consistent practice of the habits tnugtit, tinf proved so effective that at its recent meeting in San Francisco, the supreme council, Knights of Columbus, adopted adopt-ed a resolution urging hII its councils throughout the world to work townrn the adoption of the modern health crusade cru-sade in all schools. |