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Show Tha ror nf I illntmrrjh. Investigations recently made by n medical committee In IMInhurgh show thnt tho poor of that city aro quite as well fed as thoso la tho largo town of Orcat Urltnln or America. The com-.mlttee com-.mlttee regrets that the old diet of porridge por-ridge nnd. milk of the laboring clataea haa been glen up for tin nml bread. It also polnta out thnt while bread as an energy producer Is belter than brown, and that much remained to bi dono to instruct the poorer clasaea of tho population ns to how their fool should bo properly conked, I mentioned men-tioned that the dietary In Scottish poorhoutcs la of a ery Inferior kind and not nt nil adequate. This statement state-ment has brought a hnrnet'o neat o, denials about the doctor's ears from poorliouso manngera nnd officials of tho local government boirds, and, If these nre to be believed, It would appear ap-pear that all but the tramp clam bavo not at all a bad time of It so far aa food Is concerned, when they are resident In theso Institutions M, li Gilbert, In Chicago Ilccord. |