The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1920-12-27
NUTRITION
CLASS IN GRADY
COUNTY SCHOOLS
New Work Undertaken Through the
Home Demonstration Agents and
Red Cross; Local Worker
Speaks Of idea
INSTITUTE rs CONDUCTED
BY RED CROSS CHAPTERS
Discovery That Something Lacking
Came When Examinations for
Draft Were Made and 80
Per Cent Were Unfit

Instruction in nutrition will be or
fered in every rural school in Grady
county if plans Of Mrs. Nettie r. Cor
yell county home demonstration
| agent, mature.
Mrs. Coryell announced today taat
she planned to carry on this worl,
through the schools and would solicit
the cooperation of these institutions.
She hopes the school teachers viii
acquire a broad knowledge If this
work so they may be enabled to i'm.
part the knowledge to the school
children.
The first step toward placing mis
work in Oklahoma wns talsan wha
the American Red Gross condu el
the nutrition institute in Oklahoma
City this month Mrs. Coryell who
was selected to take charge Of tho
work in Grady county, attended this
institute Speaking Of the work. she
says:
The examination Of our boys for
service during tie war revealed the
fact that thirty percent Of these
men were unfit for service. The find
Of so many defective or below stand
ard, lead the thinking workers to
begin investigation for the cause
and the remedy Of this. It was found
that large part OF those might
Nave been efficient If those who had
the care OF them in early childhood
had understood these defects and
known tAe remedy.
The work known rs the nutrition
class Is new thing. Still enough
has been done already for us to sec
the results of the work
New York, Chicago Kansas city,
Kansas A. &M college, Wichita, Mis-
souri, Georgia, Soth Carolina and
Florida are doing some Of this work.
However most of the work has been
done with the city children.
Oklahoma viii be among the first
states to put this work in the rural
districts, through the county home
demonstration agents who attended
this nutrition institute.
These agents, with the help OF
the public health nurse where there
is ono in a county, will select a
school center for the nutrition c;ass.
II there is no public health nurse.
the home demonstration agent with
the help Of the Red Cross will enl5ty
| other helpers
"The children will bo measured
and weighed. Those who are found
to be seven to ten, or more percent
underweight, are then examined. by
a physician and a dentist in tn,
presence Of the parent, only. The
parents are advised to have defects
removed, and the children are given
certain rewards for advancement
made by the following health direct
ions and eating tho food tsat win
make them grow,
For example: A boy seven years
Of age should weigh about forty
eight pounds and be forty five inch
high. IN our work we found bay
Of this age who weighed only forty
pounds. This made him sixteen ana
onethird percent underweight.
"At each meeting Of the class thu
children will be weighed, and that
weight will be compared with the
previous weight d'phe children who
were worked with ian5thS institute
were children who had been weighed
and measured previous to the meet
ing. The greatest gain that was
found was six pounds in a month
, The mothers of the children all
seemed very much Interested. and
anxious to help to bring their child
rem up to normal efficiency.
Every child has a right to grow
to be an efficient citizen, and no
better work can be done than that
Of helping them to do So Grady
county win be among the first to
take up this work"