New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-01-21
MILK FOR P4TIENTS.
Diet Kitchen Promises to Furnish 1t
for Taco Months.

II am not consumed with enthusiasm when hear
OF millionaire giving million dollars for research
regarding the nature and OF consumption"
said DR.. Henry Dwight Chaplin. before the New
York Diet Kitchen Association. at its annual meet
ing. held at the home OF Mrs. J. Henry Lane, No.
III East Twenty-hrst-st, yesterday afternoon I'VE
know enough about tuberculosis stamp It
out, Il only had the facilities. and I would
rather money spent for relief than for research
] think, in a pinch, We could get with fewer
Libraries IL We had more milk. DO not wish to
minimize the value OF research. but already
know where We at in the matter Of tuberculosis
and We know that psople are dying Ike sheep
because they can't get food and can't get air.
The value OF the work OF the Diet Kitchen Asso-
citation In supplying milk for the sick poor. and
particularly for children, could be overestnat-
ed. Dr. Chaplin said.
The health of children is mainly q question of
nutrition" he continued ''and the difference In
the death between the children OF the well-to
do and those OF the poor is due to this
than to anything else. In investigation OF the
family conditions Of six hundred children brought
TO the Pcst-Graduats Hospital It found that
IN only eighty-hve cases did the incomes OF the
families concerned amount TO SO week In only
sighty-fve OF these six hundred families. there
fore. was there enough money TO give the children
proper food and Il was further discovered that IN
The majority Of cases the health of the children
hsd been good at birth Illness had arisen evil
IDENTIFY from lack OF suitable nourishment, and the
hospital simply treating starvation. OF course
cerian school do say. that It would be better to
let these children die But the trouble is that
great many Of them don't die They drag out mis-
cradle eristencea public charges, drift into
the criminal classes Your work in the diet kitch-
is therefore preventive work OF the most valu-
able kind"
DR.. Chaplin also commended the association for
carrying it's work in the homes OF the people
rather than IN institutions
IF the family can't get enough to eat" he said.
10 +Na4~ DOrff ~ ham
70 institutions. would prefer the rather bad per-
sona oversight OF fairly decent mother than the
best trained nurse IN the world"
DR.. Chaplin followed by DR.. James A Miller,
who made plea for the assistance OF the associa-
ton in the campaign against tuberculosis now
being conducted at Bellevue Hospital He said that
there were between twenty and thirty thousand
OF this disease in New-York. and not. at the
most. than a thousand beds available for
such patients. It IS evident. therefore. that the
vast majority must be treated in their homes and
It Is for that the pure milk Of the diet htch-
ems Is wanted. This homo treatment even under
the unfavorable conditions OF the tenement houses
and often without proper food. has already pro-
ouced surprising and gratifying results
The president. Mrs. Henry Willard replied 10 Dr.
Miller that the association had decided TO furnish
milk for the Bellevue tuberculosis patients for two
nsna Ihe eontnusnee OF The Work would qe
o. milk day for the long periods during when
u would be required by such patients would be
severe TAX on its resources.
Ths reading of tho annual reports preceded the
" pr rs,i meeting. The treasurer. Mrs Joseph
W; Eton reported receipts Of sl2 $50 u and an ex-
ps,neStere q a2.66l s. She said that one new
htenen had been established through the generosity
r % ars e b Haekey and that egaeies had been
rreCyelReo from Mrs Adolph Rusch $4,000, Samuel
Ms s'an Ssszl - and Mrs G. G. Haydock Gs52 20
49, nacHleys gift amounted to 5000. and 1900
s S1eI was contributed by Mrs. Edward Tuck and
In , ne absence Of the secretary Mrs William
IsesniolGs Brown, the minutes Of the last annual
meetlng were ere read by Mrs. Frank Badgley. The
rsPoIus OF the oinerent kitchens presented by
the olreetresses Mrs Myrick Plummer, Mrs. Au-
gust LEWIS Mrs Charles NJ Raymond, Miss Chris
uana Metzgar. Mrs. d. ]. Burtis and Mrs. l. r.
Mrs. E NJ. Cook " 49, -
The president. Mrs. Willard gave a synopsis of
the ne years work and made a sympathetic reference
10 The death OF Mrs Adolph Rusch the Oldest
charter member OF the association
Tea was served after the meeting and among
those present were Miss Maria H Metcalf Mrs
tharles Natrous. Mrs. George r Baker Mrs
Alanson Cary. Miss NJ NJ Cunningham Mrs FRED
erick kuhne Mrs. j Otto ToUssaint Mrs s G.;
brown, Mrs. James y. Wells, Mrs C b Hackley
Mrs. J. Sanford Greves, Mrs. Peter Worrail
Mrs Stephen II. Thayer. Mrs. John Degener Miss
L r. Wickham, Mrs. D. D. Williamson Mrs J. @
BALDWIN, Mrs A. r. McMichael Mrs w. H. Car
Renter Miss Matilda ". Butler Mrs William P
Aorthrup. Mrs. A W. Wright Miss Helen NJ
Wade Mrs. Charles Kollstede. Mrs s. c. T. Dodd
Mrs James Ditmars Voorhees, Mrs James Peder-
sen. Mrs: George T. Wilson and Mrs Charles