Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-07-17
GIVEN
MILK DURING
SCHOOL. HOURS HOUR S
School Children Furnished
46,264 Quarts Of Milk To
Fight Nal Nutrition.

1924 Quarts 81 Milk To
Fight Mall Nutrition.
During the past school term there
was furnished to grade school pupils
Of Grand Forks 1924 half-pint bot
ties of milk in connection with the
plan being tried out to- combat tuber-
culosis through, the elimination of
mal-nutrition according to Mrs. r; A.
Sprague, foE commissioner.
The milk cost "a cents per bottle.
Children who cared ito paid 10 cents
ipe-.. week forfthe milk they consumed,
38,003 bottles being paid for in this
way. The remaining 8,261 bottles
were paid for out of the local share
of the money raised through the sale
of Christmas seals. 4
Annual Report.
After. trying u the plan sar one
school year,Sthe following report on it's
success has been issued by Mrs.
Sprague:
1T has long been recognized that
victims of malenutrition are more.
subject to disease, and especially to-
tuberculosis, than those who are we'll
AOull S11Cus- L Io4AA SA111lAld IxOlS VI vast
numbers Of children a normal stand
ard of age, height and weight has
been adopted. Apart from individual
family or race characteristics, it has
been found to be quite reliable. Any
unusual deviation from this scale is a
pretty sure indication that something
is wrong, School authorities are so inn
pressed with this that the practice
of Weighing and measuring the pupils
= -, 80, io% .,S,o I. 81 ,o-S.1,s, ~ -
he recognized program. In fact, a
Ching and measuring scale is NOW
i~,arded as an important part of
school equipment.
AN examination of the pupils of
the city schools at the beginning of
the last schoolsyear disclosed the fact
that there was a very considerable
number underweight. which meant in
ability to satisfactorily carry their
the remedial barriers that are respon-
sible for mal-nutrition may be men
toned:
l.. Physical defects.
2. Fatigue and insufficient rest.
3. Faulty health habits.
4. Improper or insufficient food.
The first three are matters for the
nurse. the physician and the family
to solve, while the question of eco
nomics enters into the fourth. 1t will
be seen, therefore, that it is a ques-
ton of cooperation and of rational
effective work between school author
tiles, parents, teachers, physicians and
social workers.
7 The North Dakota Tuberculosis as
ISOLATION, like all other organizations
of a like nature, relies on the sale Of
Christmas seals for funds to carry on
its activities. 1t gives SO per cen of
the total sales for health work in the
communities where seals are sold. In
Grand Forks it was arranged with the
school authorities by the committee in
child in the grade schools of the city,
including the parochial school, an
opportunity of having one-half pint
of milk per3day.5F ~
Milk is the one article Of diet
whose sole function in nature is to
serve as food, and the one food for
which there is no satisfactory substi-
tute. It#is2the soletfood of most young
mammals during the period Of most
doubles it's weight in six days, the
lamb in Is days, tthe&calf in SO days,
and the baby in $50: days. The fat in
milk is easily digested and is rich in
the fat-soluble vitamin which pro-
notes growth and is important, in the
maintenance of health. The carbohy-
drate content in milk is in the form
of milk sugar, and is very easy to
digest. Milk contains all the organic
elements required in human nutrition
and furnishes them in exceptionally
favorable proportions. 1t is generally
accepted hat milk is rich in all the
three vitamins.
with these facts in mind, the good
that was done to these physically do
ficient children cannot be expressed
in the ordinary units of measurement
Drinking of the milk was optional
with the pupils.
There were ITS girls and 16S boys
making a total of 346, who took il
regularly. The milk cost SAC per bot.
tie, inclusive of breakage, straws, etc
That all might partake it was decided
that those who wished might pay 1t
cents a week. In this way the fund
was sufficient to last until the end O.
the year and no pupil was denied q
bottle. There were 1921 bottles fur:
nished free and 5000 that were paid
= for at the above rate, making a tota
of 46,264 bottles that were used
distributed in the several schools a:
follows:
Parochlal 1,93:
Roosevelt and Central ..E.1O. ST.