| Show malnutrition ONE OF HUGE PROBLEMS 1 1 Delart department ment of public instruction to the he mother of ou on U underweight ch bill keport reports vit the weight of x hool ahil dren are BOW now being pent to the berate by the schools an effort wort Is 1 beau benuit male innis to get th children interested in their own growth an ani I 1 nutrition and to find out which th ml illren iron are definitely un ler let hou rishe I 1 it is de that I 1 arent arents know more about juat just buat the thet schools are trying to da d ami ancl the alg six ance to bt b AttACh Cl 1 to it frioni fri ua um der weight there ha has been worked out a table for bots boy rill one for girl girls cawing the tile normal norma weight for each height of each ige age from MX to eighteen to be alight ly underweight means nothing but t tot for a boy bt ot girl to be an a much aa 7 per ent tent underweight means that a caret care ful inquiry I 1 be mailo made to 4 ter ermine whether or not ther there are ma other evidence evidences of under it other evidence evidences are found such as gen rial al latitude lassitude bad color and difili cli clin atlon nation to 1 lay as a normal ormal ti wide awake american boy or girl should pia play it would be b safe to say that the chail c in Is in all probability under nourished or as we sometimes eay sayo malnourished if there ie in no other 1 Laport ant eyl vl ance of under nour lehm nt than just the underweight the condition may be found to be a family characteristic or a race characteristic not every child underweight according to tha th table Is 1 u under rider nourished and tot hot every child chila full weight la Is free from malnutrition what the school schools are doing is taking underweight where it amounts to as much touch as 7 ys tent cent of normal weight as an index of possible ible malnutrition an I 1 then proceeding eding with a careful in to find f got nd out just what is the mat mut ter r anil and of course this is something eo methin you a as the mother are more interested to know than any teacher can possibly pos be in the of weighing and meae melts aring an ant 1 comparing actual weight li with what the weight weights hould should be of course the ten ebers make inquiries quirica hi a as to diet dietl etc t and make remarks about light that are cattle I 1 home by th eh illren alic these verbal mese agee you yet need not hot pa tny tiny attention to be 0 cause they are liable to be inaccurate an I 1 misleading it if your chil I 1 is 90 0 o much underweight that you should know iti it you will receive from front the super superintend intent tou out or of the health super visor an official notice jf that fact along with ith euch such wee a tn it may se e M alae to A rive 1 if f our P child h lid la ov over er weight wise to be b e lver haliy y about a b our t it t wo we want children to be overweight As long its ft much weight in is not due to t flabby fat tat it if overa la Is due simply to ack eicens 03 of fat or 1 r alliase tissue it can bo corrected corret corr eted tod by regulating thu the diet rix and li ine alne upon a amount of abial motters already inov and 0 vo o are ar anxious that all shall know that the nutrition and physical Thy growth of their ehll chill lrea reu are far more important than any in the course of or the childrens chil drena progress reee in any sub ab eject in this office oce we ara nd nanne g who ther thil iren he underweight or not tl if nt at the schools arrange to furnish at coet cost td to all childred chil dreu who asce their unclick to school a bowl ft hot nour alls bing 1 soup or some similar d dieh ish be baue e a use we feel eliat thie this matter ma t ter of growth Is I 1 eo so very important in cae cases where children are actu actually alir ishel asbe 1 where the 7 per cent under feigt li not a family cr r race charae terie teria tle tic and where it la Is associated with other le finite evi evidences lences of mal mat nutrition we wo think the mother should have a it conference on ference with the health that a pro program rain should be adopted that will wil I 1 utilize the services er vlee of the family daml physician hys ician or a a that the m mother y t h ere be given the oppte of securing the very latest in etrue tion on the essential e e senti als of the gel cl enee nee of as a may be available and that the home and the school come into a wipe and arld betic 0 opera era tion for the tile welfare of children Amil mi forenoon feeding of whole milk and graham cracker crackers will jo do wonder wonders for certain children who ar at malti our isted and this will be ouch such an easy thing to do if the mother mothers ft ill help ea p the school all mothers whether hey they have und underweight ehll chil dren or r not own and read the following pamphlets diet for the school chill cc c malnutrition ac these are to beia be al I 1 of the super int anten n lent of documents government lovern ment printing office ahin toa D ct 0 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