TALC Direct Recording Scale Kit

Made:
St Albans
maker:
Teaching Aids at Low Cost
Plastic scale with special TALC spring (weighing to 17kg), hook

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Plastic scale with special TALC spring (weighing to 17kg), hook
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TALC Direct Recording Scale Kit, for weighing babies and young children, consisting of a plastic scale with special TALC spring (weighing to 17kg), hook, suspension cord, instruction leaflets, wall chart and 30 English language Child Health Charts, as well as examples in Arabic, French, Portuguese, Spanish and Zulu, used to monitor child growth in the developing world (to indicate nutritional failures or the presence of disease), by TALC (Teaching Aids at Low Cost), St. Albans, England, 1992

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Category:
Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry
Object Number:
1992-890
Materials:
plastic, paper and metal
type:
weighing scale
credit:
Teaching Aids at Low Cost

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TALC Direct Recording Scale, Hertfordshire, England, 1992

TALC Direct Recording Scale, Hertfordshire, England, 1992

Plastic scale with special TALC spring (weighing to 17kg), hook, suspension cord, and one Child Health Chart, from the TALC Direct Recording Scale Kit, for weighing babies and young children, used to monitor child growth in the developing world (to indicate nutritional failures or the presence of disease), by TALC (Teaching Aids at Low Cost), St. Albans, England, 1992

Measurements:
overall: 520 mm x 170 mm x 23 mm,
Materials:
plastic , metal and paper
Object Number:
1992-890 Pt1
type:
scales - weighing device