Friday 10 May 2013

Posters from the Archives

Full translation of Jordanian Child Development poster

Last week we featured some posters from our Nutrition collection. We now have a full translation and explanation of the Jordanian poster, thanks to Hannah Becker.


The poster reads from right to left


Title: Child Development
Subtitle: During the first year of life
Right top heading (above black and white squares): 'Each square equals one hour’s sleep.'
Under squares (right to left):
·         first month 12 hours sleep
·         third month 19 hours sleep
·         sixth month 18 hours sleep
·         ninth month 16 hours sleep
·         one year 15 hours sleep
Above Black line (far right): weight in grams
From bottom right to left:
Yellow boxes
Weight
(inside thick black line)
Age
(Beneath baby images)
Nutrition

(beneath the baby images)

3500
at birth

Notices/recognises light
3850
One month
Boiling and Cold water
Lifts his head, smiles and cries tears
4600
2 months
Fish oil
Vitamin A, D
Lifts his head and neck
5350
3 months
Ground rice or starch
Sits if assisted. Laughs loudly
6000
4 months
Mashed banana
Poached apple
semolina
Holds hands and sees well.
6500
5 months
Vegetables mashed finely
Start with a tablespoon custard
2 teeth Screaming and shouting
7100
6 months
Egg yolk
Vegetable soup with minced red meat or lentil soup
Drinks with a cup
7600
7 months
Vegetable soup with minced red meat or liver or fish
Says dada and tata.
Sits independently
8100
8 months
Milk, chicken, hummus, Fuul (like broad beans) poached and mashed
Understands the word ‘no’ and crawls
8500
9 months
Yellow outlined images of food:
Title: Food from 8 to 12 months



Soup
Milk



Semolina with milk


Banana
Grapefruit

Mimics voices and stands supported
8850
10 months
Tries standing and understands words
9200
11 months
6  teeth and walks with help
9500
One year

Table outlined in yellow under months 9-12 beneath images of food (written as is, so left = left side)
6 PM
3pm
10am
6am
Starch or ground rice with milk
Minced meat or
lentils,
vegetables,
ground rice or potato
Milk or yoghurt
Fruit juice
Fruit
Semolina
Milk
Milk
Bread
Egg yolk
?

Text beneath the yellow outlined table:
Orange juice and vitamin A, D
Breast milk and boiled water
Red ladder on left
Red text: Height
From bottom to top
In rung = height, above rung = age
1.       50cm at birth
2.       53cm one month
3.       56cm 2 months
4.       59cm 3 months
5.       63cm 5 months
6.       65 cm 6 months
7.       67.5cm 8 months
8.       71.5cm 10 months
9.       74.5 cm one year

For more details of the exhibition in Keppel Street  lobby which features posters and pamphlets from the archives, see http://march.lshtm.ac.uk/news-events/events/exhibition-towards-happier-birth-days 

No comments:

Post a Comment