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DISEASES OF CHILDREN
Author(s) -
G. H. MELVILLE
Publication year - 1947
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.1947.tb78150.x
Subject(s) - citation , computer science , psychology , information retrieval , library science
Physical Medicine", edited by Chicago: The Year Book Pub5", pp, 400, with illustrations. written by an acknowledged expert in that line. An excellent chapter is devoted to the subject of the organization of child welfare centres, or as we here would call them, baby health centres, and included is the author's illustrated suggestion of an ideal plan for such a centre. All the many aspects of the dietetic problems of childhood from the natural feeding of babies to the feeding of growing school children are discussed. The care of the deaf child, the blind child, the crippled and the congenital syphilitic are all elucidated and the vexed question of the education of such children is tackled in a very practical manner. The problem of the mentally deficient is also considered. This book will be useful not 'only to general practitioners for whom it was primarily written, but also for all school medical officers, public health officers and almoners.