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Show CHILDREN WILL REMAIN STUNTED Effects of Undernourishment In Ausrip. Startle Physicians VIKNNA. Keb. 19. Throe internationally interna-tionally known Austrian physicians have Joined In a statement to the effect ef-fect that Austrian children will remain' permanently stunted In growth unless adequate r list Is iven Immediately. The physicians sre lr. Elselsberg. Vienna Vi-enna brain speelallst anel one of the leading imveona Of the city, and Drs. i Loreni and rirquet. the latter Inventor Inven-tor of the tuberculin test and for two v irs professor at Jolins Hopkins unl- verslty. The statement which has been made i by request says: ' We, tho undersigned, wish to bring to the attention of tho world that ro- jeent statiFtlcs gathered in Vienna show Austrian children subnormul both In weight anel height. Recent examlna- jtlon of apprentices In Vienna revealed that boys of 17 years of age have an average height of five feet two inches. Instead of the normal height of five feet, six Inches, and that their weight averaged 101 pounds, instead of a nor-1 mal weight of 114)6 pounds. , "Altogether we may state that at the end of Juvenile growth the average: boj j of Vienna are about four Inches belOW normal height anel about 1 pounds below normul weight. tiirls are correspondingly stunted. "We also believe, from a medical standpoint, these children will never . have their normal weight and height but will go thmugh life in this stunted i condition. We believe that children !of succeeellng agi- and classes, unless given sufficient food will also remain. i underdeveloped and so go through' life I "An awful proof of undernourishment undernourish-ment Is great rlistortlon, caused by 'rickets, of limbs if nearly all the children who come to orthopedic warels "A most depressing fact Is the fre- qucnt occurrence that young boys and ';rirls. asking for relief of severe palm in their feet or legs, are ascertained to be dragging themselves on broken bones which had cracked noiselessly and given way on account of the un-j un-j healthful condition of their emancipated emanci-pated systems. Such deplorable developments devel-opments were unheard of previous to I the war and can now only be com-botteel com-botteel by giving the children adequate und sufficient food." no |