Excerpt from Food Lessons for Nutritional Classes

The first class organized for children was held, through the courtesy of the Henry Street Nursing Association, in its local center at the corner of Amsterdam Avenue and 126th Street, New York City. It soon became evident that the Morningside Center needed quarters of its own, and through the support of the Charity Organization Society, it moved to 100 Lawrence Street in January, 1920. Later, the work aroused suffi cient interest to enlist the cooperation of the New York County Chapter of the American Red Cross which was about to undertake a demonstration of Child Health work of various types in the city.

Public School No. 43, whose support the Morningside Center was already enjoying, as most of the children in its classes were coming from there, was the obviously suitable center for an intensive nutrition program. The cooperation, not only of the school principal and teachers but also of the Department of Health of New York City, and the Departments of Household Arts Education, and of Nursing and Health of Teachers College, was readily secured, and the Red Cross furnished a full-time nutrition worker for the Morningside Center. It soon became evident that the work for the children could be done more effectively in the school itself; consequently, in January, 1921, the rooms at 100 Lawrence Street were given up, the Charity Organization Society ceased its financial aid, and the work was transferred to the school, the Red Cross adding a second nutrition worker and establishing a dental clinic.

The work in the school with from 150 to 175 children at a time in special nutrition classes has now gone on steadily for a year. A new group has been chosen each half year for this intensive work. Each class contains from twelve to eighteen children and is taught by a student of nutrition at Teachers College, under the supervision of the author, so far as the lessons are concerned, and under the immediate direction of the two nutrition workers at the school, one of whom has super vised the home visiting done in connection with the classes since Miss Winslow's departure for London in September, 1921.

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