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Show Oivinif New Vork Cliilitrcn h Vnrntlnn. Tlioso who apply for a chance to send their children to the country aro instructed in-structed that they must be poor and needy, without any infectious disease, clean and free from vermin. A physician physi-cian then inspects each child. Dr. C C. Vinton was the examining physician last year, and he examined nearly lo.OOi) children, of whom about .1,000 were sent into the country. Each day the board of health furnished a list of the houses where there was any contagious disease, which was of immense help. ' With thai list before him it was easy for the examiner ex-aminer to stop any child whoeitme, from un infected house. The majority were refused on account of their hopeless condition con-dition as to vermin. It is a herculean task to get the average tenement house child in a suitable condition to bo received re-ceived into country families. Rev. Wil-lard Wil-lard Parsons in .Scribner's. |