MILK SURVEY OF THE CITY OF ROCHESTER 



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ever, that he was equipped with a force of nurses sufficient only to secure 

 information from 11 Public Schools. For this reason the director of the 

 Survey asked the city authorities to furnish to the Health Bureau a suffi- 

 cient force of nurses and other workers to carry out the weighing and 

 measuring of school children in all of the 47 Public Schools in the city. 

 The Commissioner of Public Safety consented to furnish such facilities 

 and in accordance with this plan notified the Director of the Bureau of 

 Health that such facilities would be furnished. This offer, however, was 

 declined, and as a consequence, the Bureau of Health failed to carry out 

 this work in more than the 11 schools above mentioned. 



Information was secured through the Board of Education as to the 

 milk consumed by the children in all of the 47 Public Schools of the city. 

 The children were classified into two classes milk drinkers and non- 

 milk drinkers. The report blanks used included the following items : 



School Number, Grade Number, Child Number, Age, Sex, Race, 

 Height, Weight, Milk Consumed and Under-nourished. Through the 

 Superintendent of Schools information concerning every school child was 

 obtained on all of the above subjects, excepting height and weight. 



In the expectation that complete reports would be received from 

 the 47 schools, the complete tabulations- of the results from the 11 schools 

 where height and weight were also obtained, was not attempted. For the 

 purpose of showing what results could be achieved were this work com- 

 pleted, there is presented below a statement of a portion of these tabula- 

 tions which have been prepared. 



In Table No. 15 is presented the statistics of the 11 schools in which 

 the children were weighed and measured, showing how many children of 

 each sex and race were in each school and the number of milk drinkers 

 and non-milk drinkers. 



TABLE No. 15 

 STATISTICS FROM ELEVEN PUBLIC SCHOOLS 



Totals.., 5,088 4,937 10,025 100.0% 6,033 



60.2% 



A detailed statement of the children of each age from 4 to 16 of the 

 Anglo-Saxon race males drinking milk and non-drinking milk and 

 their total height and weight and average height and weight is presented 

 in Table No. 16. 



