Identifier: motherchild01whip (find matches)
Title: Mother and child
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Whipple, Guy M. Provision for the education of gifted children in the United States American Child Health Association American Child Hygiene Association National Child Health Council (U.S.). Child health in Erie County, New York
Subjects: Child health services Child welfare Children Maternal health services Mothers Child Health Services Child Welfare Maternal Health Services
Publisher: Baltimore, Md. : American Child Hygiene Association
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and the National Endowment for the Humanities

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
tiveor inverse correlation between in-fant mortality, and the mortality inthe immediately subsequent yearsof life. These data seem to provethat at least in the rural districts,a definite inverse correlationexists. Robert M. Woodbury, Statisti-cian of the Childrens Bureau, dis-cussed New Zealands infant mor-tality and the methods there usedwhich brought it down from over100 in 1875 to 48.4 in 1918, thelowest of any country in the world. The address of welcome at theeveiiifi^ session of the first day wasgi#n by the Mayor, Hon. HenryKiel, to which Doctor Van Ingenresponded. Mr. Herbert Hoover followedwith an address on A Program forAmerican Children, given in fullin this issue of M other andChild. The Child Health Organizationof America then gave a demonstra-tion of a new method of teachinghealth to little children. The stagewas set in Fairyland, and theHealth Fairy, Miss Anne Ray-mond, flitted out of her house,waved her wand, and won an en- NOTES ON THE PAPERS AND Till-: ilXllJLlliS 163
Text Appearing After Image:
Anna M. Upjohn Copy., A. M. C. FOOD FOR CHILDREN Little children must never have sausage or other highly seasoned food, unripefruits, uncooked vegetables, coffee or alcoholic drinks. No, no, my little ones, you are too young! It will make you sick. Such foodis for papa and mamma. thusiastic response from the groupof boys and girls seated on thestage, to v^^hom she told her tale.The grownups in the audience re-peatedly burst forth into applause,forgetting that the Fairy v^as talk-ing to the children and not to them.The program of the secondmorning w3ls devoted to Childrenof the Pre-school Age. Dr. J. F.Austin, of St. Louis, read a paperon Early Dental Defects, illustrated with lantern slides, showing theserious results of neglecting littlechildrens teeth. Dr. Carter, of Los Angeles, senta paper, the Mental Health of theChild; some Physical Determin-ants, and a Method of Observation.He suggested health status chartsas being one method of obtainingdata for preventive work. Standards and

Note About Images