The Washington herald., 1922-01-23
PELIDEI TEST
MAY Be USED TO
RATEU,S. YOUTH
Nutrition Test Devised in
Austria Explained by
DIR. Pirquet.
MONDAY. JANUARY =. 1872.


Weigh your child in Kilograms
and multiply the result by ten. d.
vide the result by the child's sitting
height in eentimeters. take the cube
root Of the result, and you will have
ngure that will tell you whether
your child is properly nourished.
This is how the ~Pelidisf" is OBJ
tanned. Thousands OF Austrian chill.
dren have had their PeIidisi COM
puted- II IL was below -. they
were rated as undernourished and
the American Relief Administration
admitted them to their kitchens.
where they obtained SUFFICIENT food
to bring them back to normal Quite
normal and healthy children should
have a PeiidIsi OF 100.
Dr. Clemens PirQuet professor %
pediatrics at the University Of VI
emma, and Austrian general commits
sioner for children's relief. worked
out this system that can be used bv
persons with no medical training to
rate children according TO condition
Of nourishment.
DIR. Pirquet in his talk Saturday
Afternoon, opening the Austrian
children's relief exhibit at the Ma
tonal Museum, explained this sys-
tenn and how IL was used IN Austria
That this method will b. useful IN
testing school children q America
is the hope OF DIR. Pirquct Enpe-fS
have recently declared that MANY
rich and well-to-do children an.
undernourished.
Austria may be considered s.
nutrition laboratory 81 IN. biggest
dimensions. which works not only
Tor the benefit Of the children led I,
that laboratory. but for tho bopest
/ Of the whole world which u III p-oGt
by the scientific results n. 49,
. Not only will the medical science
profit by it. hut also educs,i,nsi
legislation. 7 hope that with, en-.
heNt few months a law win n. On
acted in Austria which will make
J permanent school kitchens out %,
the American organization. and Z
/ nope mat this law will be a model
Tor other countries"
: eifaA american relief kltch-
ems dish out TO each Austrian child
! not so many Galleries or pounds
'oi food. but exactly 900 mems
each day Mem" is the unit for
calculating the nutritive value %
food 10y another system. also Do
yised by DIR. Pirquet. devised :,
that the great relief administration
kitchens could provide rroper food
for the children and keep track
OF IT,
The unit mem" is an abbreyia-
ton Of Nutrition Element Nnk"
and II stands for the quantity .,
foodstuh that has the same pu-
tritivr value as one gram Of ord.
nary milk. The Austrian ,hfldre,
are given the equivalent nutriti,..
value Of one liter. or a little more
than quart Of milk. only once
day. This winter 200. 600 are being
fed this daily meal by the Amer.
can Relief Administration. Earlfe-
600.
A child to retain its weight mus,
have roughly 1000 mem Of food
/ 10 grow and increase in weight.
u requires approximately roo mem
The relief administration meal Of
. l'eoo mem. costing TN average %
seven cents. is intended to be sun
Elementary to what the children are
able to get at home.
hr. Pirquet also has devised an.
other system. called the Sacrarsrna.
which is used by physicians FOR 4
more exact statement OF the de-
gree OF undernourishment Of the
children.
All three Of these systems are -.
ing used by the American Relic
Administration in its Russian rcIs..
work.