Children need doctors, and children are everywhere. Last week, for the first time since 1937, some 1,800 pediatricians from all over the world (59 nations) met in Manhattan's plushy Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. Their medical findings confirmed some things that most people already knew: undernourishment and tuberculosis are rampant among children throughout Europe, Asia and Latin America. But the meeting also produced some new, surprising findings.
Small but Healthy. A British team headed by Cambridge University's Nutrition Expert R. A. McCance had made a searching study of some typical children in the British zone of Germany. The youngsters, living on a subnormal diet of...
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