“SLOW STARVATION”
ONE IN FOUR REPORT ON NEW YORK CHILDREN CANNOT PROFIT BY ATTENDANCE INADEQUATE RELIEF BLAMED. (United Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 12.45 p.m.) NEW YORK, July 29. The toll of the depression on the health of school children is vividly disclosed in a report made to-day by Dr. Adela Smith (Assistant-Director of Health andi Education) showing that of 135,000 in the Borough of Manhattan, one in every four children attending elementary schools is suffering seriously from malnutrition and undernourishment. .
So weakened are these children that they “cannot profit from attendance at, regular classes.” This condition of “slow starvation” shows an increase of 70 per cent, during the past five years. A large number of under-nourished children cannot attend school at all, and as a consequence “many of them are becoming psychopathic cases due to their, suspension from school, worry over loss of educational facilities and lack of interesting occupations, while their playmates, brothers and sisters are at school.” The, report blames inadequate relief for the state of affairs. ,
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 55, Issue 245, 30 July 1935, Page 5
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