CHILD WELFARE IN NEW YORK.

Taihape Daily Times, 25 July 1919, Page 5

CHILD WELFARE IN NEW YORK.

U ‘Schemes for providing the school--lchildrcn of New York, with lunches (are being set on,i:o_o_t,_ and‘ a sum of 450,000 dollrs hasibeen set aside for - _!carrying out this work. According Hto figures issued by the Department 3 lof Health, 61 per cent. of New York’s - gchildrcn are going to school under- - inourished. The question of salaries ' to the director and his four assist--iants has proved\tLhe most difficult 5 stumbling-block in“? organising the T Scheme, the proposal which has excit- - _ed some discussion being that the di- = lector should be paid at the rate of l [SOOO dollars a Year and his assistant ' 2000 dollal‘S- It Was agreed, however, "that for so big an enterprise good ' salaries had to be paid, and that no ’ ‘risks shoulfi be run that it would not ' «be Organised Dl‘operly_ The director ’ 10f field Work of the ‘child heatlh oi-’-‘ganisation considered that the whole ‘ |‘Value of the plan might be lost if a. : 1"5m311’3 Person were made director of : ‘the lunches. “It is a big administratlllfe piece of work, covering the Whole ’l€ltY.‘ The lunches must be made I available to all the children, the rich ‘ ‘as well as the poor. The Health De- ’ ipartmellti according to one enthus~ ’ last, should take care of the\ uni der-nourished cliild, the charitable organisations should look after the bunF 3U’ child. The school lunches must ' ‘reach every child. It is absurd to 5 ‘call this thing an experiment. The ’ Whole Dlan has been proved a neces- ’ ‘Silly and a success in other cities. What F We need is someone to adjust the plan [ Ito the conditions of New York 'City_ _ [lt cannot be handled by the domestic ‘lscience department, because it isn't ' a domestic ‘science. job. The division Ishould co-operate with the domestic ' Scionce department, as well as with ' ltiie physical training department f ‘and With th’e»Dcpal‘tnlent.,'- of Health; Butit is a piece; of.;e_reat'iv'e' wail; ‘ioié E which Wo"‘lY‘l7\lSt’_hE_i._"\.f§3AAViß'. headfivho is student as Ewell" .a-,_di'rector.’»’. i- V. I.’ '.