Excerpt from What Is Malnutrition?With the passage of the sheppard-towner Act November 23, 1921, Federal aid was made available to the several States for developing their work in the hygiene of maternity and infancy.5 Forty-three States and the Territory of Hawaii have now accepted the terms of the act and are doing some type of hygiene work for mothers and infants. In addition to carrying on the program for prospective mothers, all these States are working toward the establishment of health centers for all children. Through these measures nutritional care has been made available in many localities where it was formerly lacking, especially in rural districts.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.