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DESCRIPTION OF THE STUDY
The survey team which visited most of the centers was composed of one
of the two assigned pediatricians, one graduate nurse with pediatric experi-
BEIRUT
ence and one male attendant. Some of the centers were visited by both pedi-
LEBANON
atricians, the two graduate nurses and one male attendant. Visits were made
MEDITERRANEAN
according to a prearranged schedule which had been circulated to all the
DAMASCUS
Senior Medical Officers in all districts of the country and to UNRWA medical
SYRIA
headquarters one month before the start of every quarter of work.
SEA
The team leader invited the physician in charge of the Maternal and Child
Health or Child Health clinic, where the survey was to be done, to attend the
survey and share in the discussion of the nutrition problems or diseases met.
HAIFA
LAKE
TIBERIAS
The Maternal and Child Health nurse or health worker in charge of the center
and some of her assistants helped in all the surveys. In many instances the
IRBED
public health nurse in charge of the particular district also attended and
took part in the survey activities.
LAJLON
NABLUS
MAFRAQ
The graduate nurse registered the patient and recorded the identifica-
tion data, the obstetric history, past history and dietary history, often in
. ZARQA
cooperation with the public health nurse. The physician examined the children,
RAMALLAH
CHOAMMAN
AZRAK
recorded the information on the card, and took the blood specimens. The male
attendant collected the urine specimens.
JERUSALEM
. MADABA
BETHLEHEM
The specimens of blood were put in specially prepared oxalated tubes;
HEBRONTLY
SDEAD S
urine was collected in plastic cups and then filtered into a special plastic
bottle, the cups and bottles previously having been rinsed with distilled
. KERAK
water. The blood and urine specimens were then placed in a portable ice box
and were either sent on the same day directly to the laboratory or kept in an
electric refrigerator until the next morning when they were sent to the labo-
JORDAN
ratory.
Despite the fact that the clinics were well baby clinics, it should be
noted that at least a few mothers brought their children to the center for
SINAI
SAUDI
treatment rather than prophylaxis. Most of the children came from lower-
middle and low income families. The ICNJ estimates that these represented
. MA'AN
75 percent of the population of the country as a whole; there are no data
. RAS EN NAQB
which allow affirmation of these figures, so that the estimates can be re-
PENINSULA
garded as but an impression. Data on total income were not available.
AQABA
ARABIA
Wherever no Maternal and Child Health or Child Health center existed in
the location visited, the Government Children's Clinic was visited. Here
people had been told beforehand of the purpose of the visit in order that
they might bring their well children and not just their sick children. How-
ever, most of the centers visited were Maternal and Child Health or Child
Health centers.
The refugee children examined were all registered by UNRWA, and were
GULF OF .AQABA
FIGURE I
International boundary
living in refugee camps. Jordan has nonregistered refugees who do not take
Armistice line
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