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January 2S, 1922 
Milk Lunches in Public Schools 
The chief purpose of public education is 
not so much the acquiring of knowledge 
as the development of light, habits of 
thinking and doing, or worthy ideals and 
purposes of living, and of vigorous health 
essential to loyal, constructive citizenship. 
To accomplish this purpose good health 
is of first importance. 
Ill-health is productive of opposite re¬ 
sults, for to it is due a large portion of 
the suffering, poverty, crime, and insanity 
that handicaps progress and prosperity. 
We have learned that by proper health 
training and cure in childhood and youth 
much of this great loss could have been 
avoided, and thousands saved for useful 
lives at far less expense than is required 
to support them in misery and degeneracy. 
Both from the financial and humanitarian 
points of view, no community can afford 
to neglect to provide adequate means for 
health care mid training of the children. 
It is estimated that of 20.000,000 
school children <>f the United States, ap¬ 
proximately 15,000,000 have serious phys¬ 
ical defects, that 5,000.000 are suffering 
from under-development, and malnutrition, 
and a million have tubercular infection. 
To overcome and prevent this tremendous 
handicap on the future efficiency and 
welfare of the coming generation of citi¬ 
zens. it is evident that public education 
should determine the physical condition 
of each child and provide the care and 
training necessary to the upbuilding of n 
stroic healthy body before emphasizing 
those more intellectual studies and exer¬ 
cises commonly required. Health must 
have first, place in all systems of public 
education. What, a great blessing it 
would be if through the schools, with the 
co-operation of the homes, any large por¬ 
tion of the great sorrow, suffering, and 
death due to tuberculosis could be pre¬ 
vented. Yet this is possible by proper 
health examinations, care of the phys¬ 
ically weak, prevention of infection, and 
better nutrition in school and at home. 
Recent attention to these things consti¬ 
tutes a most important advance in public 
education. 
It has been determined that, an adult 
seldom develops tuberculosis as a new 
iufoetioti. hut as the result of an infection 
in childhood that bus lain dormant for 
years until the body resistance became 
weakened h.v disease or other cause, al¬ 
lowing the germs to break out. and infect 
the system. Investigations made recently 
in Austria and Sweden showed that chil¬ 
dren under four years of age are most 
easily infected with tuberculosis, that 
those over four years seldom take the 
disease on the first exposure, that those 
over seven years take the disease only 
after long exposure, as From inmates in 
the same family, and that infection may 
he taken directly from milk. In view of 
these facts, how important it is that all 
possible care be taken by parents to pre¬ 
vent infection in the early years of child¬ 
hood. and Hint both in the homes and in 
the schools proper food, exercise, physical 
training, rest, anil open air he provided 
to build up strong bodies that will resist 
or overcome infection. 
Besides the work of the school phy¬ 
sician, nurse, of physical training and 
playgrounds, of open-air classes for those 
seriously physically weak, the schools 
must provide means, such as nutrition 
classes, and school lunches, for the better 
feeding and nutrition of all children, and 
especially for those seriously under¬ 
weight and under developed. When thor¬ 
oughly carried out. this nutrition work 
has given very satisfactory results. One 
city reuni ted that at the beginning uf the 
year 72 per cent of the children were 
under weight, and that at the end of the 
year, as a result, of the school lunches, 
chiefly of milk, only six per cent were 
under weight. In Montclair. N. ,T.. Ml 
per cent were found to be suffering from 
malnutrition, but at the end of the year 
this had been reduced to IS per cent, by 
use of the milk service in the schools, 
chiefly for children under weight. 
In Meriden, Conn., all of the children 
in the elementary schools were weighed 
and measured in March. 1021. lags were 
given out. showing whether the children 
were under or over weight, and lmw much, 
and circulars of instructions as to the 
use of milk as a foot! and the importance 
of normal growth and development were 
sent home to the parents. Beginning in 
April milk was served daily iu the schools 
to all children desiring it. Approximately 
SO per cent of those enrolled used milk 
regularly. The cost was 20 cents a 
week per child. It was provided free for 
those unable to pay. It was delivered in 
cases of half-pint bottles, and served at 
the morning recess. A straw was given 
with each bottle. In some schools the 
larger boys carried the cases directly to 
the classrooms, where the milk was served 
and Ihe bottles returned to the cases. In 
other schools all milk was served from a 
central place. 
In March the per cent of malnutrition 
was 25.1, Iu .Tune it had been reduced 
to seven per cent, which meant that ap¬ 
proximately MMM children had gained nor¬ 
mal weight. Of the 2.020 children taking 
milk daily, there was an average gain in 
weight of approximately five pounds. In 
June they were consuming in school daily 
410 quarts more than iu April, and a 
large number of children who had pre¬ 
viously not habitually had milk at home 
began drinking it there also. Parents 
became more interested in milk ns a gen¬ 
eral food, especially for older children. 
A very importmut gain was in the substi¬ 
tution of milk for tea and coffee at home. 
Iu April 2.2S4 children reported that 
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