Physical Measures of Growth and Nutrition.

In 1927 the American Child Health Association instituted a school health study or research to be conducted by thoroughly qualified observers on material which should be of such character and amount as to make it possible to draw well founded conclusions. The first report dealt with health education tests; the present report has to do with physical measures of growth and nutrition. It embodies the study of numerous measurements of about 8,000 pupils of the fifth and sixth grades (10, 11 and 12 year old children) in seventy schools in as many cities. The tests and measurements were applied by fifteen field workers of the American Child Health Association. This monograph is devoted to an analysis of the anthropometric data thus obtained, in an effort to devise measures for use in the general field of growth, development and nutrition. These and more accurate quantitative methods, when tested out in actual