PEDIATRICS Vol. 53 No. 3 March 1974, pp. 444-445
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Letter to the Editor

Priscilla White M.D.1

1 15 Joslin Road, Boston, Massachusetts 02215

I am in favor of Doctor Feeman's proposal for early detection of diabetes in the childhood population. Among other reasons, the rate of diabetes in the childhood population is unknown. Formerly in a house-to-house canvas the rate was believed to be one child in 2,400. A recent study of school children in Detroit showed that one child in 600 had been diagnosed as having diabetes. These statistics contain some errors as a few of these children were diagnosed as individuals with diabetes but were not requiring insulin therapy.