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Show INFLUENZA ORPHANS 21,000 YOUNGSTERS NEW YORK. Ncv. S. Health CnmmlM-Hloner CnmmlM-Hloner Copeland c-etimaled tonight that there are about 21.000 children In the city who have heen mnrlo full or half orphans by Spanish Influenza. Of llm 72nn families In which R father or mother, or both, had been victims of the disease, the commissioner stated, about 700 families, with approximately 20,000 children would need tho care of the city. In rr'sponse to tho nppenl for foster-parents foster-parents to ciire for children made orphans or-phans by the epidemic, fifty or sixty persons per-sons havo asked ttM permission to adopt one or more ohlidJ tl |