RATE AT WHICH INFANTS SHOULD GROW.
“An infant should double its weight in six months, and treble it in a year, provided it is a healthy child, and its nutrition is in every way satisfactory,” says a writer in the Journal of Hygiene. “If a child does not increase at the rate of one pound a month during the first year of life, and twelve ounces a month during the second year, its nutrition is not satisfactory. If a child does not grow nearly three-quarters of an inch every month during the first year of life, and half an inch a month during the second year of life, it is not satisfactory. The latter is, of course, not of the same importance as the former. Clearly, premature children would not be so large, tho they should increase at about the same ratio.”