ABSTRACT
Boards of health and welfare stations have concentrated on the infant with a result of lowering infant morbidity and mortality; school physicians and nurses have given oversight to older children, but the pre-school child has fallen between the two periods. The baby is so helpless that constant advice is sought, and most private as well as public schools have physicians who exercise some oversight over child development, but the little run-about is too often left to his own devices. Biological researches show that favourable embryonic conditions and good nutrition during the earliest years have the greatest influence in determining the full height and development of the individual. The rural Iowa children were above the urban ones in stature and weight from birth to six years. The various gastro-intestinal diseases, from careless feeding and poor hygiene, are very common with the little child.
