The cost per pound of bean milk all through these months, taking into account the higher cost of bean, fuel, sugar ete. has been kept within two cents a pound and that includes management, and delivery expenses. The cost per cake is.7 cent per piece. This means that it only takes $54 to aid one child under six and $22 to ald one child between 7-14 years old per month, During its peak period the Committee distributed 14,000 pounds of bean milk and 23,- 000 pieces of bean cake per day, making a total of 37,000 children reached.
(UME, Experiments Attempt to "Melt"
Some years ago, Dr. Ernest Tso, one of the committee members, made number of studies in the Peiping Union Medical College on soyabean milk, and showed that six. infants, tone from birth and the others a few weeks old, were successfully fed for months on soyabean milk supplement ed with cod liver all and cabbage water ete.
With " small hand grinder, ino garage space donated by the' Children's Hospital at 65 Moulmein Road, the Committee started to make and distributed 100 pounds of bean mill: to two camps as a trial on November 2. The experiment went very well, Other camps were makin, very urgent request for some of the til andthe small plant expanded day. by day uni it wus making a total of 14,000 pounds a doy.
The funds have been used as fur as possible in direct production, and the overhead has been astonishingly low. Each child under six years old teeeives one pound of bean milk delivered twice a day, morning and afternoon, The milk is maintained at 2 concentration comparable to cow's tnilke with calcium lactate and brown sugar syrup added. The children ove it, especially when they do not have anything sweet in their diet,
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