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A STUDY OF FOUR HUNDRED AND TWENTY-SEVEN CHILDREN UNDER A CONTROLLED DIETARY REGIMEN

BRENTON M. HAMIL, M.D.; LAWRENCE REYNOLDS, M.D.; MARSH W. POOLE, M.D.; ICIE G. MACY, PH.D.

Am J Dis Child. 1938;56(3):561-583.

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The lack of extensive material concerning the minimal requirement of vitamin C necessary to prevent scurvy in infants has frequently handicapped research workers. Information indicating the amount of vitamin C required by the average healthy infant under usual conditions in the home has been inadequate. While a survey made in the homes entails a great deal of added effort and is impossible to control rigidly, the results are applicable directly to the problem of infant management. The deficiency in control and supervision without hospitalization is more than offset by the natural environment. The infinitely greater number of infants are subjected to ordinary home surroundings, both psychologic and physical. It is this larger group which must attract the interest of physicians, for as the group is larger so is the opportunity of service greater.

A detailed study of a cross section of Detroit's infants of indigent or near-indigent parents has been . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
DETROIT

From the Research Laboratory, Children's Fund of Michigan and the Children's Hospital of Michigan.

Footnotes
The infants were obtained through the Detroit Department of Health, Harper Hospital, Florence Crittenton Hospital, Woman's Hospital and private physicians in Detroit.

Senia Kangas, R.N., director of nursing service; Rachel Moore, roentgen technician; Betty Munday, M.A., Louise Emerson, A.B., and Marion L. Shepherd, A.B., laboratory technicians; Francis Slyker, Ph.B., statistician, and Helen R. Sternberger, Ph.D., who made the analyses of vitamin C, assisted in this study.

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