Two hundred forty five malnutrition cases in Severance Hospital, Seoul_. Korea, during the past four years and nine months(April 1952?December 1955) have been reviewed.
SUMMARY I. Classification of cases
1952 1953 1954 1955 i -7
1956 TOTAL
Abandoned Children 91 5 ? 2 ? 98 _.
Orphans from Orphanages 34 15 40 23 112
Homeless Children 4 1 1 ? 6
Pav Cases 2 9 6 8 4 29
if 97 48 22 51 27 245
2. Female children were predominant in sex incidence at the rate of 1.54: 1. Most of the abandoned children were female and also there were more females in orphans.
3. In age incidence, 62% were under one year of age and about three-fourth of total cases were under 2 years of age. The average age incidence was 1.7-1-0.13 years.
4. The highest monthly incidence was in March and September, and the lowest one was in February and November.
5. The mean weight on admission was 46.8±14.65°% of normal weight for their ages and 62.4% of them were under 50% of normal weight.
6. The completely cured and discharged cases were 62.4% of total admitted cases and the mean period of hospitalization was 1.9+0.24 months. The mortality rate was 26.1% and 56.2°0 of death occured within 10 days of hospitalization. The hospital days of the dead cases were averaged 19..6+4.39 days.
The following features are also discussed : chief comlaints on admission_, complications, managements, parasites infestations, causes of death and weight curves.
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