Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-02-26

members OIL the Eerth Amboy MI
| triton Council together with the
| school authorities have completed
the weighing and measuring of chill.
dren in school number 8. 1t has
not been determined yet, just how
| many children are underweight but
definite figures will be announced
in a few days. On Monday members
of the council will begin to weigh
and measure children in school
number Z, SO that a comparison can
be made of the two schools.
Those who assisted with tho plans
at school number 8 were, Mrs. Leo
Goldberger, Miss Catherine CROSBY,
Mrs. c. Jones, Miss Jane ]. Pack
ard, Miss Marie Nielsen and Mark r.
Letter.
Considerable interest in tho Nutri.
ton Institute to be held in Newark
from the 5th to the 18th OF March.
has been manifested in Perth Am
boy. Miss Mabel Skilton, Chief AS
sistant to DR.. VIM. r.. P. Emerson.
of Boston, has arrived to make the
necessary preliminary plans.
During the week Miss Skiltor,
| with the aid of an assistant from
Boston and the workers Of the New
Jersey tuberculosis League. will Sc
lect about twenty children from five
or six different centers in the city
where no nutrition work has been
done and Immediately organize a
class for instruction of those chill
dren seven to ten per cert under
weight for their height. 1t is plann-
ed to have a school in a well to do
district, a poorer district and II IN
a district where the parents are in
moderate circumstances financially;
olso a school where foreign children
predominant, a parochial school, a
private school and an orphanage Will
be selected. At least twenty under
weight children will be selected from
each of these groups and these will
form the basis for class demonstra-
ton, history and chart making.
These clinical demonstrators Will he
in the schools each afternoon from
! one to three o'clock. At three thirty
or four O'Clock each dag the class
will meet in the auditorium OF the
| Board of Health Building for lee
lures and other demonstrations. AL
SO in the evening from seven-thirty
| to nine-thirty there will be intensive
| instruction in the methods OF cor
recting malnutrition which DR.. En-
| erson has successfully introduced IN
the schools of Rochester, Boston
| Washington, Grand Rapids, Atlanta
| Manchester, New Haven, Fail River
| Indianapolis, San Francisco, CleVe-
land, Lincoln (Nebraska) and Hon
| olulu.
During the first week supplemen'
tary Lectures will be given by ether
experts: such as, DR.. Florence Pow
dermaker. Nutrition Expert OF the
Department of Agriculture OF New
JERSEY, on Monday night, March 5thi
on Thursday night, March Sta, DIR
Beatrice S. Herben, Nutrition En-
pert for the New York Tuberculosis
| Committee; and on Friday night. DR.
| Chas. Hendee Smith, leading nutri.
ton expert of New York City, vii
address the class.
The first three days of the second
week OF the Institute, March 18TH &c
18th, will be Of special interest &c
physicians and directly in charge o.
| DIR. Emerson. On Tuesday night
however, March 18th, Mrs. Ethel
| Mccormack Hendrickson, OF Roch-
| ester, will explain what has been ac-
complished in that city through DR.
| Emerson's nutrition methods. II is
| also aOpeQ That LII NidAdlh DN0
| New York can be secured 70 give his
lecture on 1.-THE History OF Nntri-
| ton"
1t is expected that about 100 VII
| register for this course and whc
| will thus be prepared to go out and
! take up the plans for preventing
malnutrition in various schools over
tbs state. 1t is expected that a num-
Der OF physicians will avail Them
selves of this opportunity to get first
hand information on nutrition prob
lens and be prepared to assist in the
medical work in putting the program
into effect locally.
In addition to organizing the
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