Ogden Daily Standard | 1917-02-22 | Page 4 | New York to Investigate

NEW YORK TO f INVESTIGATE i Will Learn Basis for Complaints Com-plaints Voiced at Mass Meetings Meet-ings of the Poor. New York, Feb. 22. Heads of city departments asserted today that a superficial su-perficial examination of municipal Statistics failed to show results that! miuhi be attributed to lack of suffi-cienl suffi-cienl nourishment caused by the high 1 price of food. In obedience to instructions instruc-tions from Mayor Mitchell they began be-gan however, an investigation to learn j if there was any basis for complaints voiced in the mass meetings in the poorer districts this week and by com-1 mittees that have called on the mayor. At the offices of the board of health it was said that the death rate continued con-tinued to be lower this year than last and that statistics of Illness apparently did not show that lark of nourishment! had been an increasing cause .of disease. dis-ease. Public Charities officials said that l applications for admission to the poor house had increased recently. On the I other hand, the municipal lodging' house has of late been sheltering only half its capacity.