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WOMANSENSE HOSPITAL FEEDING IN BRITAIN TODAY
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URING recent years great strides have been made in. Britain in the practice of feeding in hospitals, both of the patients and of the stuff.
Formerly the responsibility for the entire establishment's catering arrangements was shared by the
in steward, matron and n
housekeeper, each of whom
atrendy had a comprehensive lask to contend with.
Britain's Ministry of Health and an advisory body known as the King Edward's Hospital Fund for London. working in close co-operation with this Govern
Government department, have done excellent work in helping to improve the standard of diet for all sections of the hospitals biclubles patients, medical, nursing and domes- lic stuffs.
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Short Cut To Long Division
For Children.
Parithmetic
."
By GARRY CLEVELAND MYERS
SENIAPS there is nothing else in.
school over. which children have so much needless worry as long division.
Why, for instance, should you have the child begin by dividing 3200 by 217 Why not have him begin by dividing by 4 or 2, going through the first steps of long division? Then after you do for him a few more as easy, to show him how, he could step. up to a problem with. remainder, an o divided by 4. Then after prac- tice
on several more as simple be could divide 84 by 2, for instance. After mere practice on types of this sort he could divide 75 by 5, and so He could have a total of several hours of practice (in 15-minute periods) on such easy steps before beginning to divide with a two-place divisor.
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on.
But you may say that such easy numbers can be divided by short
division. So they can. But
wouldn't bother tire child with short division at all until after he has grown fairly skilful at long division (of numbers easily divided by long division). Then in a few lessons he could master short division. The main thing we are getting at is to help the child master a method of operation in long division by the easiest way possible.
Avold Confusion Anything we can do to loud the learner to achieve (in any skill) from one very simple step to another only very slightly harder will help avold his confusion and discouragement,
The text books often use the old complicated, ways. Also once wrote In a school journal of this simple way. But so far as I ascertain, teachers have stuck to the old, hard way. I despair of their try- ing to make the subject more simple: Parents who are a bit more practical, perhaps, might choose to try it.
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Anyway, in preparing any child for long division, make sure he *hows the multiplication Factors" needed, can subtract well, and easily discern whether a simple number is larger or smaller than another- whether, for example, 8 is more or less than 11, 23 more or less than 10. 300 more or less than 372.
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By WINIFRED PEGRAM
From September, 1930, to Febru- „Alexander Fleming was Instru- ary, 1944, the difficult years of mental in discovering penicillin World War I, one of the Ministry there, I saw an evening meal ready of Health's dieticians carried out un prepared for patients and stoft. It Intensive survey of hospital diets, began with hors d'oeuvre, consisting covering hospitals in England and of a number of savoury and mind Wales. THE
collected information dishes. There was also sliced cold has been of extreme value in.cn meat, rolls and butter and to all abling the Ministry to advise hos the dishes the staff helped them- pital cafering staffs and appoint sclves, this
this melliod having qualified personnel to buy food and found #sychologically good
andi stores to the best advantage and economical. There was
fruit plan incals of the highest nutritive course to follow the meat. value.
consisting of a slice of canteloupe The Ministry of Health looks after melon. Fresh fruit is served when- the provincial hospitals, while the ever porn.ble, advantage being King Edward's Hospital Fund for Token of the market to buy econo- London, as its name implies, sends- mically. visitors in an advisory capacity
help in the hospitals of Greater
AT ST. GEORGE'S
been
In the big kitchens of St George's
Landon The first taken to Hospital, which faces the gardens warde effecting Improvements was of Buckingham Palace, the appointment of an officers. Park Corner, London, 1
of catering
the
at Hyde
AIW kitchen staff busy with chickens mushrooms, pre- parlug chicken en casserole for the nurses and patients next day.
The
next time the catering officer would
Their sole responsibility is to deal with every
branch of the entering arrangements, including the buying of all stocks in bulk for the pre paration of menus; for the cooking and serving of meals in conjunction be able to buy chickens advantage- with the chef and kitchen staff, and ously, it would be the turn of the for planning
the dietary with the sisters and doctors for this savoury hospital dieticians.
dish, for there is seldom enough for everyone in the establishment on INTERESTING DATA
one occasion, so all A survey
1 good things are of London's served in of some
strict 'rointion to the largest hospitals has provided some different sections. Ice cream is
The Secret of Good Skin Care
Courtry Fuller Brush Cu. To get your face really clean, use a blond soap and work up a good lather with a complexion brush,
By HELEN FOLLETT
ofcaling with the prob- to the staff, some daya to patients, pleasure, to treasure youthfulness takes on a yellowy cast, watch your
the cross-section survey, and that is hospitals make their own casear and to soe that it has a daily lubri- directy after coming in. This p
with regard to the feeding plans the staff, especially the resident staff, from doctors to domestics, are con- sidered as equally important as the patients.
Unlike the patients, the staff live in the hospital for years Instead of weeks, and it is now
C intake for the day.
lear St George's, cramped for space, hands its permit for fat and sugar sel aside fur balting, to a famous firm of caterers, who send back jam rolls, Jam tarts and chocolate cakes. These are supplied
to the staff for tea three times
a
Interesting data on the way in which the menu almost every day ut St IT is part of a woman's life bus meals that can be found at any eay- the catering officer's, or nutrition George's; some days it is available nesa, and it should be her melle counter. If the colour suddenly experts are tems
and it is always given to patients and good looks. Preservation and diet. Avold rich sauces, spices, pas- everyone under an their care.
despite labour dimeulties. wi
with throat ailments. Somethires it protection must be her watchwords. rles, live mainly on lean meat, rationing and shortages of every is served with chocolate sauce for A complexion cannot very well tako dish, poultry, vegetables and fruit. kind, and the constant need for extra nourishment,
Fometlines
with eare of itself and continue to be of Take a glass of unsweetened lemon- reference to the Ministry of Food black currant or other fruit puree, smooth surface, fine texture and ade before breakfast every morning. and the local Food Office.
for making up the necessary vimmin good colouring. One fact emerges clearly from
Some of the
The first need is to keep the skin It is not wise to use soap and surface scrupulously clean, the sec-
water before going out of doors or cation. A little friction is called for plies to all seasons of the year; in to keep tissues firm and the under the summer the sun will get in its lying fibres strong. Tapping and burning lieks, in the winter season creaming will ward off premature cutting winds may come along to wrinkles. Continued faithfully, rumple the delicate cutaneous suZ- woman should be able to give old face. recognised as an essential that they week and onc afternoon during meanic Time the laugh for years and should be provided with appetising, the week-end.
years. The oldater who remalhs well-balanced meals of required
young and blooming had an early nutritional value, attractively served
In this hospital it is the custom io start in the good looks campaign. |at suitable times, in pleasant sur-
give to every member of the staff, as roundings, with enough leisure to
Some complexions are inclined to well as to each patient, his own be temperamental, given to caprice. enjoy them.
"There is completo fairness with weekly ration of butter, margarine. They may protest against soap, in sugar and preserves. The catering whloh ense one must use creams or regard to the sharing of ratious and officer believes that individuals are one of those of the unrationed foods, especially thus able to have the full intake of the more appetising items in of these valuable items of let, using short supply, for the catering officer them as they prefer, the fats 011 guards the interesis of tho staff.
potatoes or on fish rather than on bread, the sugar The main meal is served in the ings in preference to taking it in on fruit or pudd- middle of the day for patients and nurses. When the meal includes beverages, according to taste.
stage of attainment in catering is roast meat, this is given to the by
Every means the last. dectors, and sisters for the evening hospital aims at still higher alandarii
nine by no meal, in order that they may have of diet for all. As yet the profes-
whole
WEEKLY RATIONS
This
lime to eat it. since rdast meat sion of hospital dietician or mutri- cannot be served very often. The tion expert is in its early stages but ofcer at St. Thomas's since salaries for these posts arë Cital, London, the great block higher than formerly, young people
that lics on
the banks at the are, being attracted to them in Thames, opposite the Houses of larger number, and they will
far be
At bedtime remove make-up with a thin cream. Then give your faco a rousing Inthering. with a blan soap. For this, a complexion brush is excellent. Rinse with warm water, dry gently, then, on with a heavy cream. Tap and slap, Avoid rotary motions, on the cheeks that push the fragrant complexion flesh up around the eyes.
Let's Eat
BY
IDA BAILEY ALLEN
Tips on Making Good Tea
arliament, has another reason for welcomed by hospital comm{{{CC); } <<THE Americans do not seem to
serving the main meal at night. If the standard of fore in somu la exceptionally
ising staff is very large, and London he advent of the eater- much as the English
I15 for these workers no inain rations high aro drawn; snack meals of un- miloned foods are therefore pro. vided, and they do not consume the staff's rations,
All hospitals, like domestic homes, work pulmarily on the banle rations, which are constant, and drawn for each in-patient and resident member of the staff.
DETAILED FORMS
Added to these basic rations, there
is the
ing officer that has made possible the better conditions, for he or she is there to see that waste is stopped and to buy every commodity to the very best advantage and in the best markets: also to give thought and care to the planning of meals,
make ten as often or drink as people do," observed the Chef.
"I believe this is because most the real Americans do not know taste-of-ten," I said. The trouble-
in- seems to be that the tea is sufficiently and incorrectly brewed.”
"Madame, 1 do not understand. means, All the homemaker has to do is to for she knows that when she buys warm a ten eup; put a tea ball in cloverly. Is Imaginative in her cater-
The ordinary housewife wilt appreciate what nil
this
ing and is enreful to waste nothing, the cup; pour in fresh boiling wa- ter; cover with a saucer to keep in is an allowance, comparable to that she can provide for her family in the heat; and let stand for three of an ordinary industrial canteen, manner that is far more nutritious
Then she has a good cup for any meal served member than of the woman who gives
Practical Coat Dress.
of the visiting staff. This allowance thought to her housekeeping. varies, and detailed forms, showing the number of hot drinks, luncheon teas and snack meals served during a rationing period, have to be filled in by the catering officers, and re- turned to the local Food Onice.
Then there
mn occasional allowance of cooking fat, which en- ables the chef to serve a favourire meal in Britain more frequently. fried fish and chips, enjoyed patients and staff alike. To All in the gaps left after the rations have been used, unrationed foods (among them fish) must be found. This has been increasingly dimeult with the clearth of many-of-the' finned ments formerly bought from the United Suites.
by
There uce, however, available fram, time to time, varying quanti tles of poultry, game and offai, such as sweetbreads, liver, hearts, oxtails and tripe. As regards the poultry and game, hospitals have the ad- vantage over the housewife, since per is able to buy the catering oflleer is
пли at the source," many of foodo in short supply. other advantage is that, the very smail- directed to the hospitals and clinics, as well na mail I quantities of frozen eggs which are not available to the general public. but which are in-
for
these
supplies of dried milk
valuable
up the
An
are
and for keeping cooking necessary, standard of
foods. In St Thomas's Hospital,
tinned and dried mille is used ex- ciusively for cooking, leaving all
The
fresh milk avaliable for drinking and serving in ten. The dairy in thin large establishment presents
crates
Befor
a pathetic sight now, with its
of milk bottles. World War II, 200
of Kallons milk
per day were used. Now it is
By VERA WINSTON
no
In keeping with the 20th Century Boston Tea Party, we are suggest- ing a New England Stylo menu.
Coffee or Tea
Dinner
Sally Lunn Tanned Haddock Fillet
Egg and Caper Sauco Potatoes O'Brien Tomatoes Country Style Caramel Rice Pudding
Milk (Children) All Measurements Are Level Recipes Server Four Panned Haddock Fillots of tea."
Cut 1% lbs. haddock Auéta Into "Chef, your directions are explicit four portions. Brush with lemon and correct. But I regret to say julce; dust with salt and pepper; they are not generally followed. In roll in flour and slow-fry in shorten- the first place, the tea cups are not ing or vegetable oil until golden warmed.
In the second place, the brown and tender, about B water is not actually bolling. Fur- Serve with est and caper sauce.
minutes.
min.
ther, the tea cups are not covered. and the tea is not steeped for threa Egg and Caper Sauce: Melt 2 minutes. The result a pale tbsp. butter or margarine and stir Imitation of tea. Д wishy-washy in 3 tbsp. flour, 1⁄2 tsp. pepper, V4 tepid beverage with no lift and little tsp. salt and gradually 1% hot Davour. And still worse, many water. Cook and stir until the sauce homemakers try to make several bolls all over. Then add 1 tcp. cups of tea from one tea bag, each lemon juice, 1 tbsp. minced parsley, time getting a more listless, tasteless, capers and 2 course-chopped drink- A tea bag contains the hardcooked eggs, and bring to right amount of tea to make ono boil. Serve at once.
Pickle relish may be substituted for capers.
cup, After that it should be dis- carded."
Sally Lunn
*
"This use of the tea bag is all right for Individual service, or for
Break 2 eggs into a gt-sized mix- perhaps two people, tete a tete," ring bowl and beat until frothy: Add masked the Chef. "But for family service I think it is inconvenient tocant 1 c. sugar and beat to-
gether until make the tea individually Jo Ulio
Creamy. Next sift to- gether 2 4. flour,
salt and tap,
3. lp, baking powder. Add alternately Ada siterately to the first mixture, with 1 c. milk..
melted
margariteor
cup,"
Tea-pot
Add c.
Do not bent, marely »
Transfer to an oiled
"The answer to that is simple. We shortening,
mix gently. can make the tea in a warmed ten- 7% 11" baking utensil and bako pot, using ono tea bag for each cup. 30 to 35 min,
in a moderate oven,
and pouring over a good-sized cup 376 F. Cut in squares and
of rapidly bolling water for each bag that's used, We clap on the cover, stand the pot, in a Waru place, and let the ten steep for three minutes.
Then we remova lea bags, and have perfect tea,"
"What method do you recommend in the case of loose tea?" inquired the Chef,
warm.
Caramel Rice Pudding
scrve
In a small heavy trying pan melt 4 c. graniilated sugar until the colour of maple syrup. Add c. boiling water and cook until the sugar melia again. Pour this into a
Add 3% double boiler top.
C. fall "First I warm the pot; then mens- fresh whole milk, or i
tin 1 tall tia ure in one teaspoon of tea for each evaporated milk and cup to be made.
raw white Four in a good water. Stir in a thap.
and
of boiling, bubbling rice, a scant c. sugor, 4 tsp. salt
fortunato i 500 gations per week SEPARATE capelet of nutria does sized tea-cup
建 fine job of transforming a water for each teaspoon of tes, cover
tsp. nutmeg. Cover and
hra:
rico
can be obtained. The cry of every simple gray-green doeskin-finish the pot closely and fet it stand in a cook over. hot water catering officer sad nutrition expert wool coat dress into a striking coat,warm place for three minutes.
It Stir every 15 min. during
tho of dietician is, "Oh, for more eggs The cut, high surplice neckline for should be poured us once of the first half hour, or until the and milk!"
minating in a double-breasted closing leaves into a second heated pot in begins to get soft. Transfer to an Difficult as things
olled are however, is a perfect foll for either cape or which it is served.”.
baking dish, Cook un the food provided show imagination stole. The coat is fitted through, the
covered in a slow oven," 325 F. At the famous hospital of St. waist and has curved pockels at the "I see," said the Chef, "what the about 14 hrs, Serve warm with Mory's Paddington, now known 01 hips: A muff to match completes a American family needs is a bigger top cream, or ice-cold with whipped. the penicillin · hospital since Sir| charming ensemble,
and better tea poti"
cream or any, whipped topplag: