INDIAN FAMINES - Institute for Social and Economic Change

190 EXECUTIVE MANAGEMENT.
will, as shown in the greater number of cases,
return to their former homes, if there is a possibility
of their ()btaining some more congenial
employment."
The 'Daily News' correspondent introduced
the case of the necessity of supplying nitrogenous
as well as carbonaceous foods. As far
as I am aware, this has always hitherto been
attended to. It righted itself in the present
famine, and requires no further notice.
I will bring this chapter to a close by adding
a few remarks on State relief and charity. The
distribution of cooked or of raw food has already
been noticed under the head of wages j
but it forms one of the principal modes of the
disbursement of charity. One of the many
difficulties attendant on I.ndian famines is the
necessity of finding out who are actually in
distress. It seems strange, but it is a fact, that
only the direst stress will bring out some of
the poorest sufferers; and even this extremity
is sometimes not sufficient to reveal the hidden
misery. It is these different degrees of
suffering that have to be treated in all the
varying stages. The first pinch of hunger will