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THE CHINA MAIL, OCTOBER 28, 1938.
The China Mail
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Hong Kong, Friday, October 28, 1938. study of nutrition still is and
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how careful even a Government Department should be before it professes satisfaction. Although the results have been so disturb- ing the University of Liverpool and the local authorities that have co-operated with it are to be congratulated on a most The proper feeding of school fruitful piece of investigation, a children is one of the foundations type of joint research that should of national nutrition policy. The be encouraged. Board of Education has taken the view that free school meals and milk must be given only where the children are undernourished.
London's bottle-parties are at- Further, it has recently decided tracting such distinguished pat- that the test must be applied not ronage that they will really have by the teachers but by medical to find a more elegant name. In- vited to suggest some place where examination conducted by the an eminent foreign visitor could school doctors. The Board ap-he entertained after the theatre pears to be satisfied with the on Saturday night, I had no al- of method of clinical assessment of ternative but to propose one the nutritional state of the these resorts, because owing to our licensing restrictions any children that it has laid down for restaurant or dance-club is dead the guidance of doctors, and in by midnight on a Saturday. The its last annual report claimed bottle-parties can, and often do, that since its adoption compar- on all night, and they offer, in at least two instances, cabaret en- ability is gradually being achiev-tertainment on a scale rivalling ed and that "the composite pic-anything that can be seen at the The old-fashioned ture afforded by the total returns restaurants. probably approximates to the dance club, which reached its zenith in the post-war decade, ap- truth." The importance of this is
pears to be doomed. It is strong- that the method determines the ly rumoured that one of the most national statistics
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called, sub-up the struggle and will reopen as a bottle-party in the autumn. normal nutrition. An investiga-It is not difficult to obtain en- tion just carried out in Lanca-trance to one of these self-styled shire and Cheshire challenges this "private parties," and provided that the place, is cautiously run comfortable feeling. The findings and that "guests" have had the are revolutionary and dishearten-forethought to order any alcoho ing. Thanks to the willing colic refreshment that they may operation of education authorities need in the course of the after- noon, the bottle-party can snap and school doctors in Lancashire its fingers and pop its corks un- and Cheshire towns he has pro- der the very nose of the law duced a revelation of human falli- which it is dodging. No wonder that the problem of this competi-. bility that must shake the cur- tion Increasingly exercises the rent system of judging nutrition minds of the proprietors of ex- among children. Everybody is pensive restaurante. They have agreed on the immense difficulty 80 far been" Impotent to put ́ ́a teated Hivals, though they have readily applied to thousands of now dus
Idrotten, but un children. But few could have ren- repealed Hedd how variable and unreliable to? are the results of what would bably illusory
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