The Bitter Cry of the Children

· 1966

The matron of a Day Nursery examining a child’s throat. The two “Little Mothers” are typical. ] I count myself fortunate in having had a hand in bringing this remarkable and invaluable volume into existence. Quite incidentally in my book _Poverty_ I made an estimate of the number of underfed children in New York City. If our experts or our general reading public had been at all familiar with the subject, my estimate would probably have passed without comment, and, in any case, it would not have been considered unreasonable. But the public did not seem to realize that this was merely another way of stating the volume of distress, and, consequently, for several days the newspapers throughout …

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