. The effects of inanition and malnutrition upon growth and structure . Fig. 36.—Field graph showing the body lengths (circles) and weights (dots) for atrophic infants of the first year, plotted according to age. The larger circles and dots represent original Minnesota data; the others are from various sources. The curves for normal body weight and length are from data compiled by Prof. R. E. Scammon. Note that in the malnourished cases the weight is subnormal to a much greater degree than the height. Medwedjew ('82) observed the growth in length of 50 individuals during the great Russian fami
. The effects of inanition and malnutrition upon growth and structure . Fig. 36.—Field graph showing the body lengths (circles) and weights (dots) for atrophic infants of the first year, plotted according to age. The larger circles and dots represent original Minnesota data; the others are from various sources. The curves for normal body weight and length are from data compiled by Prof. R. E. Scammon. Note that in the malnourished cases the weight is subnormal to a much greater degree than the height. Medwedjew ('82) observed the growth in length of 50 individuals during the great Russian famine, but his original publication was inaccessible to me. Nicolaeff ('23) found the body weight 20-40 (sometimes 50) per cent sub- normal for age among children 1-16 years old at Kharkow during the recent Russian famine. The conditions in Russia are described also by Morgulis ('23). Stefko ('23a) found that the girls, having more body fat, showed greater loss in weight, but lower mortality. Even in countries like the United States, where extreme poverty is relatively infrequent, numerous investigations have revealed a surprisingly large number of apparently malnourished school-children, at least in the large cities. Thus Sill ('09) found 40 per cent of 1,000 primary school-children, in the Jewish quarters of East Side New York, malnourished and subnormal in weight. He cites evidence of a similar prevalence of malnutrition in London and Edin-
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