cereals may be given much thicker and fed
with a spoon. The child can at this time take a number of various fruit
juices. Orange juice is the best. Carefully strained juice of ripe
peaches, strawberries, raspberries, may be given in reasonable amounts,
one or two tablespoonfuls, once daily. Custard, cornstarch, plain rice
pudding, junket, wheatena, cornmeal, hominy, oatmeal, zwieback, bran
biscuit, each with butter, may be added in reasonable quantities between
the eighteenth and twenty-fourth months. When cereals are given they
should be thoroughly cooked, usually for three hours, and strained. When
apple sauce is given to a child about the second year it should contain
very little sugar and baked apples should be fed without cream. Water
must be given to the child between meals especially during the summer.
It should be boiled and cooled kept in a cool place. The following
schedule for a child about the third year constitutes a good average
diet for a healthy child:

TABLE OF STANDARDS

(As Adopted and Copyrighted by the American Medical Society)

PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT

[Transcriber's Note: The ages were difficult to read and may not all be
correct.]

Age in Months
Weight
Height
Circumference of head
Circumference of chest
Circumference of abdomen
Lat. Diameter of chest
Chest front to back
Length of arm
Length of leg
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lbs. in. in. in. in. in. in. in. in.
6 17 27 17-1/2 17-1/2 17-1/2 5 4-1/2 10 10
9 19 28 18 18 18 5 4-1/2 11 11
12 20 29 18-1/2 18-1/2 18-1/2 5 4-3/4 12 12-1/2
16 23 30 18-1/2 18-1/2 18-1/2 5-1/2 5 12-1/2 13-1/2
21 24 31 18-1/2 19-1/2 19-1/4 6 5 14 15
24 25 32 19 20 19-1/2 6 5 14-1/2 15-1/2
28 27 33-1/2 19 20 19-1/2 6 5 14-3/4 15-3/4
32 29 35 19-1/2 20-1/2 19-1/2 6-1/4 5-1/2 14-3/4 15-3/4
36 32 36-1/2 20 21 20 6-1/4 5-1/2 15 16-1/2
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