Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1923-03-02
NUTRITION INSTITUTE IN NEWARK

Miss Mabel Skilton, chief assistant
to DIR. VIM. R. P. Emerson, of Boston,
who will conduct an Institute on the
Nutritional Problems of Children in
Newark, March 9Th to 18th, has ar
rived to make the necessary prelimin-
airy plans.
During the week Miss Skilton, with
the aid of an assistant from Boston
and the workers of the New Jersey
tuberculosis League, will select about
twenty children from five or six diff
ferent centers in the city where no
nutrition work has been done and i'm
mediately organize a class for instruc-
ton of those children z to 10 per cent
under weight for their height. 1t is
planned to have a school in a well to
do district, a poorer district and n
in a district where the parents are in
moderate circumstances financially;
also a school where foreign children
predominant, a parochial school, a
private school and an orphanage will
be selected. At least 20 under weight
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these groups and these will form the
basis for class demonstration, history
and chart making. These clinical
demonstrations will be made in the
schools each afternoon from one to
three o'clock. At three thirty or four
o'clock each day the class will meet in
the auditorium of the Board of Health
Building for lectures and other
demonstrations. Also in the evening
from seven thirty to nine thirty there
will be intensive instruction in the
methods of correcting malnutrition
which DR.. Emerson has successfully
introduced in the schools of Rochester,
Boston, Washington, Grand Rapids,
Atlanta, Manchester, New Haven, Fall
River, Indianapolis, San Francisco,
Cleveland, Lincoln (Nebraska) and
Honolulu.
During the first week supplement
tary lectures will be given by other
experts, such as DR.. Florence Powder
maker, nutrition expert of the Depart
ment of Agriculture of New Jersey, on
Monday night, March 9Th; on Thurs
day night, March Sth, DR.. Beatrice
S. Herben, nutrition expert for the
New York tuberculosis Committee,
and on Friday night, DR.. Chas. Hendee
Smith, leading nutrition expert of
New York City will address the class.
The first three days of the second
week of the Institute, March 18th to
18th, will be of special interest to
physicians and directly in charge of
DR.. Emerson. On Tuesday night, how
ever, March 18th, Mrs. Ethel McCor-
mack Hendrickson, of Rochester, will
explain what has been accomplished
in that city through DR.. Emerson's
nutrition methods. 1t is also hoped
that DR.. Graham Lusk, of New York,
a be secured to give his lecture on
1.-THE History of Nutrition"
1t is expected that about 100 will
register for this course and who will
thus be prepared to go out and take
up the plans for preventing malnu-
triton in various schools over the
state. 1t is expected hat a number of
physicians will avail themselves of
this opportunity to get first hand in
formation on nutrition problems and
be prepared to assist in the medical
work in putting the program into eff
feet locally.
In addition to organizing the classes
for demonstrating nutrition work,
Miss Skilton and DR.. Emerson will
address a number of groups explain
ing the work, while they are in this
vicinity. On March LIST Miss Skilton
will speak to the Kiwanis Club and
have an undernourished boy present to
demonstrate her talk. On the same
evening, March 1st, she will speak
with stereopticon slides to the Essex
County Social Workers Club, which
will meet at 9 Franklin street, Newark.
The New Jersey tuberculosis
League, Inc, 9 Franklin street, New
ark, will be glad to send a circular
and further information upon request.