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meal basis with a closer correlation with physiology, physics, bacteriology 

 and chemistry and the application of scientific principles underlying the 

 preparation of food. 



Winter term, a section in the advanced dietetics course as part of their 

 laboratory practice, fed daily twenty ex-service students matriculated in the 

 Vocational Educational department. These men were suffering from physical 

 disability due to nutritional and organic disturbances and after medical diag- 

 nosis with cooperation of the physician consulted, were fed by the students 

 at special tables in club "C". Each man was placed on a diet, adapted to his 

 ailment, prepared by the class during laboratory or assigned hours. The gains 

 averaged eight-tenths pounds per man per week, the meals were furnished 

 at an average cost of thirty-one cents and all but two men were returned to 

 normal weight which they maintained throughout the six month period. The 

 improvement in spirits, ambition and morale was quite as remarkable as 

 the physical gains made. All the men who stayed at the institution were 

 able to continue their work although when coming to the diet class they had 

 expected to have to leave College on account of their health. The splendid 

 efforts of Professor Hilda Faust made this untlertakiug successful. 



It is a matter of satisfaction that this work received the recognition of the 

 Federal Board of Vocational Education and was made the basis for recom- 

 mendation to other institutions to take similar care of their disabled ex-serv- 

 ice men. 



Another section of the class in February, estabhshed a nutritional clinic at 

 the Foster street public school of Lansing. This type of work had been 

 planned by Assistant Professor Person and Dean Edmonds before the latter's 

 retirement, but was delayed in being carried our until the winter term. The 

 clinic children were chosen from a selected group who were designated as out- 

 standingly anemic. The class had to be met after school hours, all food 

 was prepared at the College and carried in baskets to the school by the home 

 economics students, the interest and enthusiasm of the children maintained, 

 and the cooperation of the parents secured. It is a tribute to the tireless 

 effort, the insight and knowledge of Professor Person and her students that 

 a hundred per cent attendance was maintained, 256 per cent gain in weight 

 over normal was averaged, and that before the close of the winter term, two 

 other clinics had been requested by the City Board of Health and the prin- 

 cipal of the Cedar street school. At all these clinics the senior students with 

 the active cooperation of Dr. Humphrey of the Lansing Board of Health, 

 Miss Hull of Public Health Nursing, Miss Bro^vn of the Social Service Center, 

 and the principals of the schools, did the weighing, measuring and instruction 

 in use of foods, food and health habits, made all charts and kept records. 

 The gain to the student in having the responsibility placed upon her was 

 immeasurable. 



The spring term, the General Faculty having given permission, four lines 

 of field work were opened up as a development of the advanced dietetics 

 consisting of nutrition clinics, hospital dietetics, visiting housekeeping and 

 feeding of disabled soldiers. The equivalent of four laboratory hours were 

 spent in each section and one conference hour. The opportunity for training 

 in hospital dietetics was made possible by the cooperation of Mrs. Harry 

 Person, superintendent of Sparrow Hospital, in visiting housekeeping by the 

 cooperation of Miss Ruth Bo wen of the Social Service Center. Four addi- 

 tional clinics were requested by the Board of Health at the Logan street 

 school, making a total of seven clinics operated during the spring term. 

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