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Show Proper Weight or Children. In children at the "growing per!o4," we are assured by a recent medical writer weight Is quite th most important impor-tant indication of genera) health that wo can have. The Importaaoe of keeping keep-ing a careful and systemirilc record of weight at this time camoit be exaggerated. ex-aggerated. Snch observation, taken, say, at Intervals of two wcettn apart for several years, aro of great valuo to tho physician In furnishing Information Informa-tion regarding tho child's real rendition rendi-tion of health. A growing child, tho writer goes on to say, should weigh, at G, about a pound for every Inch nt Its height, and after this tho Increase should bo about two pounds per Inch of growth, or a llttlo moro. When weight oxeceds this It Is rather a sign of good health than otherwise. |