Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1918-12-22 | Page 13 | New York School Children Die of Slow Starvation

New York SchoolChildren School SchoolChildren Children Die of Slow Starvation N NEW Y YORK Dec 21 Aroused Aroused Arouse by reports that with Christmas l-I l in ing cast side children are fainting g in school rooms and dying at home from irom hunger because use their parents cannot pay tho prevailing hi high h pi prices ices for milk an and staple foods representative citizens today organized a I committee to feed them first and nd investigate afterwards so I A plea that something bo be done dono for her pupils who slowly starving I to death was made malle recently b by a teacher to Joseph S. S Markus a banker who now heads tho the relief reller organization Mr Markus himself visited schools hospitals and tenements and today Is Issued issued Is- Is I sued suell a statement dealing with conditions conditions conditions condi condi- on the east 51 side One Ono settlement ho he said Bald has hall the names of ISO babies baLles who recovering from Influenza now taco face death from pneumonia because their parents cannot buy milk needed to restore them to health Every cry hospital al In Iii tho the district he continued knows hundreds moro more underfed children man many of ot whom are physically lo to continue their studies 0 Of his visit to one school ho said t two twenty In one room there were children A ragman man would could uld not have I paid 5 j c cents nta for all the c the they I wore Many Inny had hall no undergarments and those who did could hardly ca call them by that name Many tauy were without without without with with- out shoes and others had heelless and ones I We Ve learned most of br them came camo there without any anO breakfast Somo Some kind people were giving the tho teacher a K little II 0 money every week and with that she sho purchased some somo milk and cereals preparinG preparing preparing pre pre- paring gruel over o a small stove stO in the tho room She said with tho the high cost of or ormille milk mille now aho sho w was s not able ble to buy much and that several of ot tho the children had fainted right ht there In t the thc e classroom class class- room Others were too weak to leave e homo home and died there Malnutrition was the cause cause sar s ar I