Abstract
In remote mountainous areas, infants and children generally show retarded growth and development as compared with those in urban and rural districts. The authors had several opportunities to care for and to treat these underdeveloped infants and children living in the mountainous area, Yabe-Kuroki in Fukuoka Prefecture, when they participated in the summer medical activities of their School of Medicine. This paper is to provide data on the growth and development of infants and children and to contribute to the improvement of infant nursing and the promotion of lunch preparation in the schools in mountainous areas.
