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Figures in Table No. 11 show that the families with smaller incomes 

 spent a larger percentage of the income for food than the families with 

 larger incomes, and that families with small incomes also spent a larger 

 percentage of their incomes for milk than families with larger incomes. 

 The percentage of the total food expense spent for milk does not show 

 so great a difference. Families with incomes under $20.00 seem to spend 

 a slightly smaller amount of their food money for milk than families with 

 incomes above $20.00. The figures in the last column show this. 



The relation of the quantity of milk to the number of children in a 

 family is the most important item in this special inquiry. The total num- 

 ber of quarts used per day in each of the income groups and the quarts 

 used by children, are given in Table No. 12. 



TABLE No. 12 



SUMMARY OF FAMILY QUESTIONNAIRE 

 RELATION OF INCOME TO AMOUNT OF MILK USED 



*The amount of milk required was calculated from the standard of the Associa- 

 tion for Improving the Condition of the Poor, New York City. The standard is 

 as follows : 



Children under 6 years One quart 



Children 6 to 16 years One-half quart 



Adults '. One-third quart 



NOTE: Of the 1,330 families, 88 or 6.6% used no milk. 



These families include 5.9% of the total number of adults and 7.7% 

 of the total number of children. 



The most interesting feature of the figures in Table No. 12 is shown 

 in column No. 3, where it appears that in families with incomes of less 

 than $20.00 per week, the children receive only .19 quarts of milk per 

 day for drinking, while in families with larger incomes there is a prog- 

 ressive increase in the quantity of milk fed to children and in families 

 having incomes of $50.00 a week and more, the children receive .39 quarts 

 pf milk daily, or just twice the quantity of milk received by children in 

 the families first mentioned. If we compare the amount of milk fed to 



