The number of children in the shelter:
On 1 December 1940 — 474 children
On 1 January 1941 — 480 children
On 1 February 1941 — 496 children
On 1 March 1941 — 523 children
On 1 April 1941 — 540 children
On 1 May 1941 — 589 children
On 1 June 1941 — 625 children
The number of children on 1 June this year was almost 32 percent higher than the number of children in the previous, doubly more spacious location on Leszno Street.
The table regarding the number of children arriving in the shelter in individual months is even more striking:
November 1940 — 10 children
December 1940 — 66 children
January 1941 — 37 children
February 1941 — 46 children
March 1941 — 48 children
April 1941 — 81 children
May 1941 — 166 children
This table clearly shows a correlation between instances of children being abandoned by their parents and left at the mercy of society on the one hand, and increases in prices and hunger on the other. The refugee element is dominant here too, as refugees bring the largest number of children to the shelter. This is connected with the mass outflow of the poor from Warsaw, who leave their children in the shelter, assuming that they will be safe here. Characteristically, very many children come to the shelter without a name or surname, straight from the street.
Unfortunately, just like in other institutions, staying in the shelter saves the children neither from hunger nor death by starvation, as demonstrated by the following table:
[6] November 1940 — 2 deaths
December 1940 — 3 deaths
January 1941 — 16 deaths
February 1941 — 15 deaths
March 1941 — 27 deaths
