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KMID : 0377619720220020195
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Korean Jungang Medical Journal
1972 Volume.22 No. 2 p.195 ~ p.200
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Physical Growth and Nutritive Conditions of 187 Orphans
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Abstract
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The daily intake of nutrition, physical growth rates, parasitic infection and hemoglobin content of 187 inmates, aged 3 to 17 years, of two local orphanages in Pusan had been surveyed from July 1,1971 through December 31, 1971, and the following findings have been obtained.
I .Nutritive Conditions:
(1) Calorie Their daily meals represented merely 40 per cent of the Recommended Daily Dietary Allowances for Korean People (to be shortened as Recommended Allowances hereafter).
(2) Protein, Calcium, Niacin and Fe. Their daily intake of protein accounted for 60-70 per cent, calcium for about 30 per cent, niacin for nearly the same as the specified amount of and Fe. for almost three times the Recommended Allowances, respectively.
(3) Vitamins Their daily intake of V-A stood at only 25 per cent of the Recommended Allowances while that of V-C at an average of 65 per cent of the required amount as specified for each age bracket.
In the case of V-Br, however, there were considerable disparity among different age groups with the 3-4-year bracket registering 66 per cent, with the 7-12-year bracket about the equal amount to, and with the 13-17-year bracket 120 per cent of the Recommended Allowances, respectively.
Also, in the. case of V-B2, a difference was noted in two age brackets with the 4-6-year group averaging 58 per cent of and with the 7-17-year group showing almost the equal amount with the Recommended Allowances.
II. Physical Growth Rates:
The mean value of their height, weight and chest circumference fell far short of the Korea´s Standard Physical Growth Rates, reflecting their poor physical conditions.
III. Infections by Parasites:
The direct method employed in the survey revealed their parasitic infectious rate standing at 79. 1 per cent, of which the infection by Ascaris accounting for 57 per cent, by Tricho Cephalus Trichiurus for 53 per cent and by assorted infection for 47 per cent, respectively.
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