The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-10-04
Average Purchases
 Very Small Survey
 Made Here Reveals
Eyaporated Milk Purchases Above Normal Question naires Given in Three Schools For Information;
 Low Average Here Considering Food Value

ing from average to very low. Questionnaires distributed through schools selected as typical for the purposes of the survey by local committee of club women were used for obtaining data. In Waterbury three schools were selected by a survey committee headed by Mrs Lewis c. Merrill, president of the Waterbury Wo- terbury Women's Club.
 The 355 families who answered the questiennaire q istribu ted 2.051 persons including 9S3 chil- dren.
 The average family among the 355 consists of 5.78 persons includ- E ing PIT children and has an aver age income of $22.56 a week. This average family buys 1.56 quarts of fresh milk day or 569.40 quarts a year. Its daily per capita purchases of fresh milk amount to .54 of pint.
 The purchases of evaporated milk by this average family in the Waterbury survey come to I'll large cans and .19 of a small can a week. Estimated on the basis of ounces these purchases of evap. orated milk amount to 84.29 pounds a year or 14.5S pounds per capita.
 With the evaporated milk they buy converted into its equivalent in food value of fresh milk, aver age purchases of fresh milk and sevaporated milk combined by the 355 families amount to more than sixtenths of pint day per per- son or 112.24 quarts a year.
 Inadequate Supply
 How inadequate is the consump- ton of milk by these 355 Water bury families may be seen when their average per capita purchases of fresh milk and evaporated milk combined are measured in terms of food value and compared with milk quantities specified by stand ards prepared by the Bureau of Home Economies, United States Department of Health.
 These diets, worked out with re- gard to nutritional needs of the body, specify the quantities and kinds of food required at four lev els of cost and nutrition.
 The kinds of fodo and quantities required by the Liberal diet" pro- vide better than average nutrition. At the next lower level is an .ad- equate diet at moderate cost, which diet is safe from the stand point of health. Each of these diets suggest 305 quarts of milk year per person. This approxi- mately represents the idea stand ard of one quart per day for each child and one pint per day for each adult.
 The third diet is an "adequate diet at minimum cost" which from the standpoint of health furnishes a margin of safety. This diet sug- gests 26O quarts of milk a year per person, which is little under IF pints a day.
 Below Dict Quantity
 At the lowest point in the nutri- tion scale is the restricted diet" This diet is so low in nutritive content that it would be unsafe to go below it's level or to attempt to subsist on it for more than limited period. This restricted diet suggests 155 quarts year per per- son, which is little more than eight-tenths of pint per day.
 The average per capita purchases of fresh milk and evaporated milk combined by the 355 families sur vcyed in Waterbury are more than 27 per cent below the milk quan- tity specified by this restricted" or lowest diet. They are nearly 57 per cent below the milk quan- tity specified by the adequate diet at minimum cost, and more than 63 per cent below the milk quan- tity specified by the adequate diet at moderate cost" and the Liberal diet"