The diet was eventually reduced to that given in the appendix below. The cost per head per day was reduced by the end of the year to 11.3 cents for those over seven years of age and 8.2 for those under seven.
Propaganda in the form of radio broadcasts in Chinese and English, articles in the Press and popular lectures all played their part in educating the general public.
In addition, two hundred and fifty nursing mothers received a nutritious rice congee at the welfare centres five days a week and babies attending the centres received tinned or soya bean milk according to their age and condition.
Four public food kitchens were maintained by a charitable body, the Hong Kong Refugee And Social Welfare Council, in the urban area, two on the Island and two in Kowloon, during the year and provided the congee made according to the Medical Department recipe to about 5,000 destitutes, children, mothers and disabled or blind men. This example of public charity was of particular value. The expanded Nutrition Research Committee under the chairmanship of the Director of Medical Services continued to carry out useful research work on various forms of vitamin deficiency, the value of balanced diets and general propaganda.
The field experiment in connexion with alfalfa and amaranth referred to in the report for 1938 did not, unfortunately, eventuate.
Appendix.
DIETS FOR REFUGEES.
Weight in ounces.
Foodstuff Men Women Children 7-14 Children 1-7 *Rice 18 ozs. 16 ozs. 12 ozs. 8 ozs. †Pork or beef or fresh fish or salted egg 1 oz. 1½ ozs. 1 oz. - Salted fish or vegetables 3 oz. 1 oz. 1½ ozs. 1 oz. Fresh vegetables 10 ozs. 6 ozs. 5 ozs. 3.375 ozs. Soya beans 1 oz. 1 oz. 1 oz. - Oil 1 oz. 1 oz. 3 oz. 1 oz. Salt ½ oz. ½ oz. ½ oz. ¼ oz. Tea ... ... ... ...* Rice: 75% whole white rice; 25% whole red rice.
† Meat: 3 days in a week; Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.
The diet was eventually reduced to that given in the appendix below. The cost per
head per day was reduced by the end of the year to 11.3 cents for those over seven years of age and 8.2 for those under seven.
Propaganda in the form of radio broadcasts in Chinese and English, articles in the Press and popular lectures all played their part in educating the general public.
In addition, two hundred and fifty nursing mothers received a nutritious rice congee at the welfare centres five days a week and babies attending the centres received tinned or soya bean milk according to their age and condition.
Four public food kitchens were maintained by a charitable body the Hong Kong Refugee And Social Welfare Council-in the urban area, two on the Island and two in Kowloon, during the year and provided the congee made according to the Medical Department recipe to about 5,000 destitutes, children, mothers and disabled or blind men. This example of public charity was of particular value. The expanded Nutrition Research Committee under the chairmanship of the Director of Medical Services continued to carry out useful research work on various forms of vitamin deficiency, the value of balanced diets and general propaganda.
The field experiment in connexion with alfalfa and amaranth referred to in the report for 1938 did not, unfortunately, eventuate.
Appendix.
DIETS FOR REFUGEES.
Weight in ounces.
Foodstuff.
Men
Women.
Children Children
7-14.
1-7.
18 ozs.
16 ozs.
12 ozs.
8 ozs.
*Rice
†Pork or beef or fresh fish or salted egg
Salted fish or vegetables
1 oz.
11⁄2 ozs.
1 oz.
3 oz.
1 oz.
11⁄2 ozs.
1 oz.
1 oz.
10 ozs. 6 ozs.
5 ozs. 3.375 ozs.
Fresh vegetables
Soya beans
1 ozs. 1 ozs.
1 oz.
oz.
1 oz.
1 oz.
3 oz.
1 02.
Oil
Salt
1 02.
AH
OZ.
1oz.
3 oz.
1 oz.
Oz.
Tea..
* Rice: 75% whole white rice; 25% whole red rice.
+ Meat: 3 days in a week; Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.
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