PEDIATRICS Vol. 31 No. 1 January 1963, pp. 156-157
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Academy Recommendations and Public Health Regulations

THOMAS R. BOGGS JR. M.D.1

1 Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia, Pa.

Dr. Fred Harvie's expressed concern (Pediatrics, 27:838, 1961) over the possibility that a well-intentioned but perhaps naive city government might translate the American Academy of Pediatrics recommendations for nursery space requirements into law was not without foundation. The City of Philadelphia has moved so far in this direction that these recommendations will become law in a matter of weeks unless the city government chooses to change its mind. Unfortunately, the proposed law, in this instance, is to apply to existing, not new, facilities; consequently considerable pressure is being exerted to influence the city to refrain from passing the law.

There were 48,775 recorded live births in the City of Philadelphia in 1961; 32,502 were white and 16,723 were non-white.