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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D.C. · Apr 6, 1905

Poor Food Among New York Schoolchildren

INSPECTOR HENRY M. LECHTRECKER, in a report to the New York State Board of Charities on food conditions existing among the inmates of the industrial schools of New York City, says that of 10,000 children involved in his inquiry, he found that, through poverty, 439 began the day's studies frequently without breakfast, 998 with insufficient food, and 7,415 upon breakfasts consisting only of either tea or coffee and bread. The great majority of children were anemic for lack of good and sufficient food. It is, of course, next to impossible for such children to grow into useful citizens.