The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-03-26
POOR KIDS WILL
HAVE FREE MILK
Undernourished Children
to BE Given "Best Food"
is Announcement
DRIVE is CONTINUED
Free Milk in Schools TO BE
Part Of Milk Campaign
Results Here

R'ify health Officore. public hcnIih
unrsc8 and authorities In the TuIsn
puhiln schools are going 10 cou-
tinu" Tho fight 1gIinei uudnTnourigh-
uWni among children which nutr-
tpn cXpcrtR from tho dniry division
~ the department of agriculture and
tn extension division " Oklahoma
~ ana NJ college have been waglng
during Tulsu's milk for health"
w1ck
NFoliowing conferences hcld Fri
dtr md Saturday, it is announced
hht the Intensive drive Of tho past
Wfnt is 10 merge into % careful sys-
teiuutic campaign of education to
~ fond throughout the year. iu which
tH' value Of milk as "A substantial
pht of the daily diet is 10 be- urgcd
0moug both children. and grOwnupa.
Pifforts are 20 be made at once. 70
Nnnnouuced, 10 complete arrange
upnts whereby undernouriahod chill.
dkrn among poorer families through
nsik
IN three OF the city schools--se-
qupynh. Washington ana Bowell---
frfc milk already has been provided
f0 those who cannot buy ~. MIR
itbeing served twice y day 20 under
wight children IN those schools Al
~ Scquuyah school tho practice
w begun during the week OF tho
nilk campaign.
tMilk also is being featured on the
uHnus OF all city schools which have
Chetcrias, md cafeteria managers
% thnt more ana more OF the
ntpncy spent by children ~ bolng in
vNtod In milk and other dairy prod
uWs. Al Central high school, for
oxlmple, of the 1850 pupils who eat
~ tho cafeteria. only so bought milk
daily at the beginning OF the school
yenr Now, 100 half pints OF milk
ate being sold daily and 500 pieces
~ Ice cream and one hundred or
moro Eskimo pics are being bought.
Tb1t means that approximately
cant hundred children urc getting
dArv products In one form or an
Oncr at that cafeteria
RafCterlas also ara maintained at
these grade schools: Irving. Long
f1lOw, Kendall. Lincoln. aomoynh,
Ninrk Twain. Celia Clinton, Lee,
Whittier, Washington aud Lowell.
fNutrition records obtained pre-
llninary To tho opening OF tho milk
calnpaign are 10 he made "A permn-
nEnt part OF child health statistics,
according to Myrtle NJ. Hatch, di-
reftor OF health In the city schools.
The campaign milk survey, too. will
10 repeated from time to time, TO
determlne how permanent the TN
creHse In the use of milk has be-
Como and, by comparison with in
dNlduai weights. TO determine also
tAe results that are obtained In re-
docing Observation-Disclosures.
sDutside the schools tho work
among children below school age II
I'd be conducted by the Tulsn County
1'ublic Health association. through
ite recently established baby clinics.
1'he esta hlishment OF at least two
milk stations In the city II was an
npunced during the week, IN one
ghhl the health association has ret
NJ a means of making that phase OF
itt work more effective. Through
theso two stations. if they arc es-
tabllshed. milk for undernourished
CHILDREN would be distrlbuted-fur
nlshed free 20 those who cannot
buy. at cost to the mothers OF all
such thlldron--and nurses working
out OF those stations would instruct
Young mothers IN tho prepare ton
and serving OF milk 10 their babies.