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MILK SURVEY OF THE CITY OF ROCHESTER 



A consideration of Table No. 10 shows that the families having in- 

 comes under $20.00 per week contain the largest number of children and 

 that as the income increases progressively, the number of children per 

 family decreases progressively, so that while families with incomes under 

 $20.00 per week had an average of 3.22 children, that families with in- 

 comes of $50.00 and over per week, had an average of only 2.16. The 

 number of adults in these families was smallest in the families of small 

 incomes and largest in the families of large incomes. 



One factor which must not be overlooked in considering the meaning 

 of these figures is that families with young children are, as a rule, families 

 having young parents, and therefore smaller earning power. On the 

 other hand, families of larger incomes are likely to be families having 

 older parents and therefore older children increasing the number of 

 adults. These circumstances would explain to some extent the meaning 

 of these figures. There remains however, a most important fact in con- 

 sidering the necessity for furnishing a sufficient amount of milk for the 

 nourishment of small children that the larger number of small children 

 live in families having small incomes. 



It appears that the incomes of some families must be expended to a 

 large extent for food and the amount spent for milk must depend not 

 only upon the size of the income, but on the intelligence with which the 

 persons charged with the responsibility of buying the food decide what 

 portion of the income should be spent for food and what portion should 

 be spent for milk. An effort was made to learn whether families with 

 large incomes buy a larger proportion of milk than they do of other foods. 

 The figures have been tabulated in a manner that exhibits the facts re- 

 specting this information in Table No. 11. 



TABLE No. 11 



SUMMARY OF FAMILY QUESTIONNAIRE 

 RELATION OF INCOME TO FOOD EXPENSE AND MILK EXPENSE 



