Evening star., 1933-10-04
CH|[DREN'S HEALTH
CAMPAIGN MAPPED
Secretary Perkins Opens Un-
dern0urishment Confer.
ence Friday.

I
campaign to restore the health of the
! country's undernourished children will
be laid at the Child Health Recovery
Conference, called by Secretary Of La
| Dor Perkins for Friday. Mrs. Franklin
| D. Roosevelt is expected to attend.
The discussion will be informal and
will center around the role of public
health officers, medical and other
health associations, relief, social serv-
! ice. nutrition, education and law Or
| CARNATIONS in the child health recov-
cry campaign.
| Among those to attend will be many
State health officers, nearly all the di-
| rectors Of child hygiene in the State
OF national health agencies, of the Fed
eral Relief Administration, of the
American Medical Association and
State medical societies, of pediatric
societies and Of various child welfare
agencies and law organizations whose
help Will be necessary in carrying out
the program in local communities.
Secretary Perkins to Speak.
The conference will be opened with
a statement Of its general purpose by
Secretary Perkins. Federal Relief Ad-
ministrator Harry Hopkins will then
discuss the relation of the relief
, agencies to the child health recovery
! program. Except for these two gen.
/ eraI statements and the report Of the
Executive Committee appointed by Miss
Perkins to plan the conference, the
sessions will be limited entirely to in
formal practical discussions.
The campaign has the tWofold object
OF locating undernourished children and
OF caring for them through supplement
tai feeding and correction of defects.
The conference will fix the date for
the examination drive to find these un-
dernourished children. It was said that
since it is obviously impossible to ex-
anime every child o. the United States,
communities in wlnch the children are
most likely to be found will probably
be approached first. From their knowl-
edge of local conditions, health officers.
Physicians and others attending the
conference are expected to make valu-
able suggestions on this point.
Examination forms have been drafted
by the Children's Bureau.
Children Estimated.
Approximately one-flfth of the pre-
school and school children might be
said to be undernourished at the pres
ent time, according to meager data
collected by the Children's Bureau dur
ing the past two years, it was stated.
Il am loath to accept this figure"
Miss Grace Abbott, chief Of the Chill
dren's Buerau. declared. II hope q
Nationwide effort to determine the nu-
tritional condition Of our children will
show much smaller percentage"
The Executive Committee, which
planned the conference, follows: Mr..
Hopkins, DR.. Hugh S. Cumming, sur
Ct4y ~ OF
of the Bureau of Home Economics; DR..
sioner of education; Dr. Frederick D.
Stricker, executive secretary Of the Ore
gon Board of Health; DR.. A. j. Chesley
of Minnesota, secretary of the Confer
ence of State and Provincial Health Au-
thorities; Dr. Elizabeth M. Gardiner,
director of the New York division of
maternity, infancy and child hygiene;
DR.. Mary Riggs Noble, chief of the
pre-school division of the Pennsylvania
Department of Health; Katherine F.
Lenroot, assistant chief of the United
States Children's Bureau; DR.. Lillian
R. Smith, director of the Bureau Of
Child Hygiene and Public Nursing Of
the Michigan Health Department;
Homer Folks, secretary of the New York
Charities Aid Association: DR.. Kenneth
D. Blackfan. professor Of pediatrics at
the Harvard Medical School; DR.. How
ard Childs Carpenter, Philadelphia,
representing the American Child Health
Association on the Children's Bureau
Advisory Pediatric Committee; DR..
Samuel McC. Hamill, Philadelphia, rep
resenting the Academy Of Pediatrics on
the same committee; Dr. Julius Hess,
Chicago, representing the section of
diseases Of children of the American
Medical Association on the same COM
mittee; DR.. Richard M. Smith, Boston.
representing the American Pediatric
Society on the committee, and DR..
Martha M. Eliot, director of the child
hygiene division of the Children's Bu-
reaN.