Excerpt from Physical Standards for Working Children: Preliminary Report of the Committee Appointed by the Children's Bureau of the U. S. Department of Labor to Formulate Standards of Normal Development and Sound Health for the Use of Physicians in Examining Children Entering Employment and Children at WorkThe difficulties in the way of adequate enforcement of the physical provisions Of child labor laws are recognized as due to a large extent to the lack of definite standards and of uniformity in procedure. Sound health and normal development are not defined in the laws, and physical fitness for a specific occupation can not be deter mined unless precise and definite knowledge of occupations and their effect on the growth of the body and on the health of the child is available.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.