Show MALNUTRITION RIFE I J- J lN IN SCHOOLS Of 1 NEW YORK GAid G A. A Aid l' l Society Reports General General Gen eral ral Average Among Put Pu Pu- t pus pHs Is 20 Per Cent NEW YORK Dec 10 A A detailed report re report report re- re port on the prevalence of n among school children Is 1 i in th annual report of ot the Childrens Children's Aid Ai g society This report declares that un un- un children are to be found foun d in the schools in appalling numbers Investigation in the ten schools of r th the I Childrens Children's Aid society showed tha that t from 20 to 67 per cent of ot the children I were suffering from malnutrition am and from 12 to 35 per cent were classified as ec as nw needing inE- inE immediate medical attention I for ailments that prevent proper c cat t or mental development It is pointed point point- ed ed put that the general average of ot malnutrition mal nu nutrition among public school children is 20 0 P per percent r cent and that the average o ot of children needing medical attention is 4 er cent This is the table of ot percentages percentages percentages per per- for the schools of ot the Children's Childrens Chil Chil- drens dren's society l Chronic j Defects Pct Pet Pet Pct third Fifty-third Street school 67 67 35 Henrietta Henriett 51 51 28 1 Avenue It B 49 49 26 Sullivan yan Street school 44 44 24 Italian school V 44 44 2 22 West Side school 41 41 23 21 r Rhinelander school 41 41 13 1 Jones Memorial school 36 18 Sixth Street school 36 36 19 13 Tompkins Square school 28 12 I NUTRITION DINNERS u After Alter experiments in their third nifty Street school the Aid society outlines ti a plan for improving the conditions of ol the children n. n First they would collect these children in n school health centers so 0 that home care cire care and food could be supplemented defects detects would be eliminated elim elim- eliminated at clinics and hospitals and some soine some would be sent to homes Another point would be the education education edu edu- cation of parents Nutrition dinners have already b been en established in five of the ten schools and the society awaits contributions contributions contri contri- to carry the idea into all ten The bequest in memory of or Russel Russet Sage so has enabled the establishment of ofa ofa a medical a medical bureau at East Fast Forty Forty- fifth street The Brace Farm for Convalescent Convalescent Convalescent Con Con- I Boys Bos also is a anew new addition About orphans were placed in homes this year rear and the society now has 1670 1679 adopted ed children under its supervision Tl The e Chapin Adoption lr N Nursery ser under the supervision ision of Mr Mrs Mr n Henry Hnry D. D.- Chapin Chap n wife of of or the physician use the children adopted oy uy f Mrs Finley J. J Shepard has been opened at Lexington avenue and One Hundred seventh wenty street where babies f for rs adoption are displayed to pros- pros P ti e a foster parents HOMELESS S BOYS This wonderfully equipped and at at- at attractive 1 place has been of the greatest p. p assistance in our pur baby work worl says th the rep report dJ yet we tiye have have not caught up will OUr list o off empty farmed armed paren parents s I and never nover nover dan chin t In hi the mean meantime time the society has I b been cn abe abo to reach oder homeless boys to to A It greater d degree gree than ever before I through ugh their interest An rin the army and na navy During the past year Superintendent t Butcher of the Brace Memorial Newsboys Newsboys' House at William and A Duane D streets has arranged for the enlistment into the army and navy of or 2231 2221 homeless boys Including his Awards wards already in the service he has been tJ en appointed legal guardian of homeless boys an enormous Ability Most of them are of foreign paren pare par- par en e ige and many were actually aliens b belpre ore we assisted them to obtain their naturalization n i papers Many of them a affe ait o of the material form which anarchistS anarchist Is and Re Reds s' s are made |