Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-03-20
State Nutrition
Conference Ends

The NutritiC.- Institute which has
been in session for the past two
weeks under the direction of DR..
William R. P. Emerson of Boston,
ended Saturday with a general con-
ference at the Robert Treat Hotel,
to which leading educators of the
state were invited. DR.. B. S. Pollak,
president of the New Jersey Tuber-
culosis League, under whose auspices
the institute was held, presided.
Perth Amboy was represented at
various sessions of the institute by
Mrs. Leo Goldberger, Miss Marie
Nelson, Miss May Blocker and Miss
Jane j. Packard. Miss Packard at
tended the entire institute as rep
resentative of the Middlesex County
tuberculosis League.
Reports of the work accomplished
during the past two weeks were
made, indicating that nutrition class
es had been established in the Cleve-
land, Morton and Ridge public
schools, st. Patrick's S parochiaI school
and the Newark Orphanage and
plans have been made to start class
| in the open air class of the Mckinley
school. Upon re-weighing the chill
dren this past week it was found
! that all but two or three in the class
! es had gained more than the normal
| gain of the, other children for the
| two weeks of the institute. Some
children have gained three times the
| normal gain
This coming week arrangements
have been made to have all of the
children examined as to nose and
/ throat conditions and if necessary,
try to correct any physical defects
such as diseased adenoids or tonsils
! during the Easter vacation. DR..
| David H. Crawford of the Medical
Inspection Department, under DR..
George. j. Holmes, has offered to
conduct these examinations. Imme-
diately following the Easter vacation
a complete medical examination will
| be made of every child with the
mother present and steps will be
taken to correct any physical defects
| found. The. children will then be
! free to develop as normal children
and DR.. Emerson expects that most
| of them will gain their normal
weight for height by the close of this
school year in June. This can only
be accomplished by the complete CO.
| operation of the school, the home
| and the child. 1t is interesting to
note that in one school the principal
! has cut down the gym period and
other work of the malnourished chill
! dren so as so minutes a day may be
added to the rest period. Miss Jean
nette Gayley, who has been assisting
| DR.. Emerson in the organization of
| these classes, will remain in Newark
| this next week and immediately fol-
| lowing the Easter vacation an exper-
fenced worker from Rochester will
come to take charge of these classes
! for the balance of the school year.
The latter part of May or early in
! June, Miss Mabel Skilton, chief as
/ sistant to DIR. Emerson, will return to
! Newark to review the work and
! make suggestions as to further i'm
proyements. At this same time the
! 115 students attending the institute
will be invited to assemble and check
| up the results obtained.
In order to become more proficient
i'll knowing how to conduct a nutri-
| tion class several of the students will
remain in Newark for a period as
volunteer workers. They will meet
| on Monday at F. NJ. in the Cleve-
land school and be assigned definite
4 tasks to perform. The demand for
trained workers is much greater than
| the supply.