[Children of foreign workers form the viewpoint of medical practice]

Medical practitioners in Duisberg, Velbert, Wuppertal and Düsseldorf were requested to give information on special health problems in children of foreign laborers. The majority of the medical practitioners reported no differences between the health problems in children of foreign laborers and those of German children. However, many reported that malnutritional and catarrhal diseases occur more often and neurotic disturbances less often in the foreign children. The higher incidence of illness in the foreign children can probably be reduced to some extent by informing the foreign parents about the suitable nutrition of small children and of appropriate clothing in Germany.