ABSTRACT
Many of us who are concerned with child welfare have become so preoccupied with the emotional problems of the child that we have forgotten or overlooked the importance of the physical body in the lives of our children. Physical health or illness has been overlooked as a part of normal development or as the continuation of previous attempts to cope with stress. Although some residential treatment centers are making every effort to keep the mildly sick or injured child in the cottage, others send the child, even with a minor illness to the infirmary or sickroom. Infirmaries and other community medical facilities certainly are needed for particular children who require isolation because of suicidal or other destructive tendencies, or for certain illnesses that require highly specialized care. The new arrangement for retaining sick children in the cottage can be facilitated by more systematically including nurses and pediatricians in the theoretical and practical framework of the residential center.
