THE ORGANIZATION OF A SPECIAL CLINIC

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It has long been recognized that rickets is the most widespread nutritional disorder of infants occurring in the temperate zone. In order to find the incidence of rickets in infants in Boston and its vicinity, we have taken a series of 400 babies, between the ages of 3 and 8 months, coming to the outpatient department of the Children's Hospital, who had not had cod liver oil. A careful physical examination was made in each case, and roentgenograms were taken. Those babies showing neither clinical nor roentgen-ray evidence of rickets were followed along without antirachitic treatment until evidence of rickets developed. It was found that 95 per cent, of all the babies and 100 per cent. of the Italian and negro babies examined showed either active or healed rickets before they were 8 months old. It was also found that, during the winter months, all the babies seen showed evidences

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