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have not faced the problem of assuring the strongest develop-
ment, the greatest safeguards, to the so-called normal child.
We had vivid proof of this during the war when about
33 per cent of the supposedly able bodied men of the country
were rejected or classified as below what should be a normal
health standard. It developed that a large part of these
physical defects would not have occurred if there had been
better health safeguards in childhood. Under these circum-
stances it seemed to us clearly our duty to examine into the
causes of the deficiencies of the protection of child health
which bring this state of affairs about and to undertake
practical measures in remedy.
The first thing in all progress is to determine the
facts; to determine them scientifically and by experts. The
American Child Health Association has an expert staff and it
has completed a vigorous investigation of the health conditions
surrounding children in 86 different American cities of between
40,000 - 70,000 population. In these communities it has ex-
amined into the volume and purity of milk supply, into hospi-
talization and other facilities for child birth and for the
care of children, into facilities for medical inspection and
clinical services provided for school children, into the ed-
ucational work in instruction of children as to the primary
questions of health, into housing and play opportunities,
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