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Table 1.-COMPARISON OF NUTRIENTS AVAILable for CIVILIAN CONSUMPTION
PRE-WAR AND IN 1940 AND 1947, WITH ESTIMATE FOR 1952
(per head per day)
Year
Calories
Protein (g) Animal
Total
Pre-war
3,000
42.7
79.9
1940
2,800
38.3
78-7
1947
2,880
43.0
90.7
1952-
Original programme
2,990
43.2
84-5
(ii) After November cuts.
2,850
41.7
82-0
(iii) After January cuts
2,830
41.2
81.5
(iv) Cuts proposed in March but not agreed
2,770
40.7
81.0
TABLE 2.-FOOD SUPPLIES MOVING INTO CIVILIAN CONSUMPTION
(lb. per head per year)
Pre-war
1940
1941
1947
1950
1952
(estimate)
*Carcase meat and offals
98.8
95.0
77.8
72.6
82.2
64-4
Bacon and ham
27.3
20:2
19.1
10.1
22:0
· 22.6.
*Total meat (including
canned meats)
129.0
116.3
99.3
94.3
111.9
91.1
Cheese.....
8.8
8.2
8.3
9.3
10-1
7-4
*Oils and fats (including
butter)
51.0
46.0
-44-4
38.1
50.1
46.6
Sugar
103.9
71.8
67.4
79.8
75.5
78.2
Flour
194.5
208.6
237.1
223.5
204-0
200.8
Potatoes...
176.0
166.4
188-2
284-1
243.6
234-7
Shell eggs
25.9
25.4
23.1
17.7
28:4
26.4
Liquid milk
216.9
233.3
265.0
304-3
347.3
346.5
Total calories (all foods)
3,000
2,810
2,830
2,880
2,990
2,830 about
* Expressed as product weights.
Table 3.-PRE-WAR FOOD CONSUMPTION BY INCOME Levels ComPARED WITH
ESTIMATED AVERAGE FIGURES FOR 1952
(lb. per head per year)
Year
Pre-war
1952 (estimate)
Income group
Average for all groups
I
II
III
IV
V
VI
Average
Proportion of total popu-
lation
100% 10%
20%
20%
20%
20%
10%
100%
Total meat, excluding
bacon and ham
101.7
61
82
99
112
121
130
68.5
Bacon and ham
27.3
17
25
27
29
31
37
22.6
Cheese
8.8
51
71
9
101
10
71
7.4
Oils and fats
51.0
36
49
51
53
55
57
46.6
Sugar
Flour
Potatoes
Shell eggs
103.9
79
93
105
111
114
114
78.2
194.5 195
200
200
197
191
177
†200-8(?)
...
176.0 167
176
179
179
179
176
234.7
25.9
13
19
23
28
32
40
26.4
Liquid milk
216.9
77
147
182
217
294
384
346.5
Sources.-Pre-war annual averages from Food Consumption Levels in the United Kingdom (Cmd. 7842). Figures for individual income groups calculated proportionately from the data collected by E. M. H. Lloyd and published in Food, Health and Income, by Sir John Boyd Orr.
It is assumed that consumption will be the same as that for 1950-51 but with the lowered calorie value of the 1952 food supply the consumption of flour may well increase. In 1947 it was 223 lb.
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