Standard of living among workingmen's families in New York city, . raise one kilogram of water one degree centigrade ( degrees Fah-renheit) in temperature. Into the disputed questions as to the minimum allow-ance of protein for tissue-building and of fats and carbo-hydrates for fuel, it is notthe purpose of this report to enter. But the amounts as given will be recognizedas conservative as compared with the standard set by most dietary experts. 126 FOOD possible to compare families without regard to differences innumber and age of their members, and to apply a uniformstandard to them all. T
Standard of living among workingmen's families in New York city, . raise one kilogram of water one degree centigrade ( degrees Fah-renheit) in temperature. Into the disputed questions as to the minimum allow-ance of protein for tissue-building and of fats and carbo-hydrates for fuel, it is notthe purpose of this report to enter. But the amounts as given will be recognizedas conservative as compared with the standard set by most dietary experts. 126 FOOD possible to compare families without regard to differences innumber and age of their members, and to apply a uniformstandard to them all. The tabulation of the average expenditureper man per day is given in Table 64 (page 141). Applying the minimum suggested by Dr. Underhill, 22 centsper man per day, we have the result shown in Table 63 (page141). The showing by income-groups is as follows: Under-fed Families.(22 cents per man perTotal Number day and under.) Income. of Families. Number. Per Cent. I400 to $599 25 19 76 600 to 799 151 48 32 800 to 899 73 16 22 900 to 1099 94 8 9 1100 and over 48 o 0. Diagram i i.—Number of under-fed families in each of the principal income-groups. 127 THE STANDARD OF LIVING This means that with less than $600 to spend for all purposes, anadequate food-supply is not provided, and that on from $600 to$800 incomes 1 family in 3 is under-fed, while less than 1 in 10 ofthe families having $900 and f 1000 to spend fell short of theminimum for food. Of the nationalities represented, the pro-portion of under-fed was greatest among the Russians, where morethan half of the families with incomes between $600 and $800,spent less than the minimum for food. For the 318 familieswith incomes between $600 and $1100 the figures are as follows: Number of Under-fed Families. Nationality. Families. Number. Per Cent. United States 67 10 Teutonic 39 8 Irish 24 2 Colored, 28 8 Bohemian 14 4 Russian 57 26 Austrian, etc 32 11 Italian 57 3 318 72
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