Observations on Weight Gain in Infants
Archives of Disease in ChildhoodPublished 1 August 1955Open access
Jim Thomson
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There is general acceptance that weight gain in infants is a sensitive measure of health and on this account, both in welfare clinic practice and in the private practice of paediatrics, it is usual to keep a record of infants' weights.
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