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MALNUTRITION

IN EMPIRE

Caused By Poverty

And Ignorance

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SOCIAL

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Open Rinks Lawn Bowls Championship of the Colony to be played at the Civil Service Cricket Club to-morrow at 3.30 pm

Mathutrition is widespread

Mr. P. L Morphew, Mignager of His Excellency the Governor and in Geta Bros, and Co., returned to Lady Northcote will be present at the. British Colonies. and the Hongkong yesterday by the as the fundamental cause the low Empress of Asia. standard of living. This

Is.. the main Anding of the Economic Ad- visory Council's Committee on Nutrition in the Colonial Empire, whose first report was issued re- cently.

The Hon. Sir Robert "Kotewall entered the French Hospital on Wednesday for a few days rest. announced of Mr. Shih Shou-ye. The forthcoming marriage is It is expected he will leave hospital engineer, of Room 301, Chung Tin early next week.

Building, and Miss Helena Chung, of No. 648 Robinson Road. top floor.

The Committee was appointed in October, 1938, under the chair- manship of Earl De La Warr, to review the information received Prof. M. H. Roffey, of the Hong- from Colonial Governments in res-kong University, accompanied by ponse to a circular despatch sent Mrs. Roffey, returned out in April. 1936, by Mr. J. H Colony yesterday by the s.3. Em-. Thomas, who was then Colonial press of Asia. Secretary.

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Mr. G W. Sewell, Managing Director of Messrs. Robertson and Wilson, returned to the Colony yesterday by the 3.8. Empress of Asia after a business trip to the

Mr. Robert Wal-man Ngau, of North. the Viva Products Company, resid- ing at No. 38, Wanchai Road, and

The

Kwangsi Provincial Gov-

One of the most striking fea- tures of our inquiry has been the almost complete absence of milk, and. Indeed, of all animal pro-Miss Lily Yau of No. 16. High ernment has decided to elevate ducts, from most tropical diets.

Street, were married yesterday at the status of Kwellin to that of a the Registry. Supreme Court. Mr. municipality. A detalled scheme T. 9. Whyte-Smith, Registrar of is being drafted by the Provincial Marriages, officiated, and the wit-Department of Civil Affairs. nesses were Messrs, Lam Ming nan and Yau Cham-jun.

The

cai-

NEW CROPS NEEDED The Committee urges the fram- ing of an agricultural polley in which "the nutritional needs of the community are regarded as of the Arst Importance, and the addition of new crops to vary diets. Committee also suggests instruc- tion in nutritional subjects, es- pecially to women who are sidered mainly responsible for the diet in primitive Colonial homes, To emphasise the magnitude of the problem, the report points out that ft concerns 48 territories with a population of over 55,000,000, divided into countless groups hav- ing the most widely different food habits And customs. Moreover. the science of nutrition is still young. and the minimum require- ments for satisfactory nutrition in tropleal countries is not known exactly.

Little, too, is known of the more obscure and sometimes picturesque foods, which figure in tropical diets. For instance. "the exact dietetic significance," says the re- port, is still unknown of the grubs, wood lice, caterpillars, locusts, and flying arts which are largely eaten in tropical Africa, of the eggs of the megapod and tur- tle consumed in certain islands in the Western Pacific.".

RELIGIOUS SCRUPLES

The matter is further complicat- ed by superstitions and taboos. "In Granada there is a superstition that milk is the cause of worms in children. In the New Hebrides it is considered a dirty food. Taboos In parts of Tanganyika prevent women from eating eggs or drink- ing milk, and in Buganda, wu- men may not eat chicken or"mut- tori."

But while ignorance and pre-

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malnutrition, the Committee state:

"We have no hesitation in say- ing that the fundamental cause is the 'low standard of living. In al-

most every part of the Colonial

WARNING

JUDGE FINDS WIFE "UNRELIABLE"

Empire the income of a very large proportion of the population is a long way below the minimum re- "The matter will be quired for satisfactory nutrition. looked into elsewhere," remarked carefully Some Improvement s possible. Mr. Justice Singleton at Birming- however, even at the existing ham Assizes, "and if the economic levels."

facts have not been before the court, there will be intervention on behalf of the King's Proctor."

Colonial dietaries are pre dominantly vegetarian, and rela- tively small quantities of animal products are consumed,

Many colonial peoples are de- pendent on a single crop for their main supply of food.

LACK PROTEINS It follows that, speaking gen erally. Colonial dietaries aré de- ficient in varying degrees in animal proteins, calcium, pho phorus, iron, sodium, and various vitamins.

Unsuitable feeding is considered

fuil

He granted a decree nisi cf divorce to Mrs. Edna Thomas of against Francis Frederick Thomas, Dudley-rosa, Wolverhampton,

a Wolverhampton fishmonger, on the grounds of adultery and de- sertion. She

cross-petitioned for divorce, and her husband's peti. tion against her on the grounds of adultery was dismissed.

had

The husband and wife, who

a main cause of the high infantile were married in 1931, both asked mortality, which exceeds 200 per for the fudges' discretion.

thousand live births in many parts

of the Colonial Empire, and some- times even exceeds 300:

PATERNITY DISPUTE.

the

Mr. Thomas alleged, said The report makes a number of ly committed adultery, and

judge, that his wife had frequent- suggestions. In particular the in November, 1938, she had given that Committee strongly favour im birth to a child, the paternity ports of dried milk. They state of which that £1 spent on dried skimmed the evidence and certain

WIE in dispute. From milk will provide much larger it was clear adultery had been letters quantities of essential food ele- ments than £1 spent on any other form of manufactured milk.

committed.

Mr. Justice Singleton added that he found it very difficult to accept that he was anyting the

wife

said," except satiated that on Occasions she had com-

some

The need for further knowledge of tropical nutrition is emphasis ed.. "As was announced in "The Dally Telegraph" in January, an organisation has been set up un- mitted adultery. "I think she is: der Dr. B. C. Platte to conduct wholly unreliable. nutritional surveys in the Colonial "I see no reasons whatever for Empire. The first survey in exercising my discretion in favour Nyasaland, the report states, is 01 the husband who, in 1934, "left now nearly completed....

his wife for another woman, and The members of the Committee, has been living with the other which will continue in being, are: woman ever since." observed the

Prof. E. P. Cathcart, Mr. G. L. M.

judge. Clauson, Miss P. C. Esdalle, Dr. Granting the decree, he de- Raymond Firth, Prof, N, F. Hall, dured: "T cannot think it is Dr. J. M. Hamill, Mr. Francis Hem- in the interest of the state that ming Mr. E M. H. Lloyd, Bir Ed this marriage should be kept ward Mellanby Dr. A. J. R. alive. For that reason alone I O'Brient, Sir John Orr. Mr. H S. propose to exercise discretion in. Scott, Sir Frank Stockdale, and favour of the wife and to grant Mr. Hanns Vischer.

her cross-petition.”

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A charge of uttering a forged $5 bank note was preferred at Kowloon Court yesterday against Chan Sap, 28, a married woman. She was remanded in custody 72 hours

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His Excellency the Governor and Lady Northcote will be present at the annual aquatic sports of the Police and Prisons Department at the Victoria Recreation Club on Saturday next. Lady Northcote will give away the prizes.

Convicted of larceny of $94 trom a fellow passenger in Kow- loon Motor bus No. 87, in Jordon Road, on September 6, Leung! Sang. 35, unemployed. was sen- tenced at Kowloon Court yesterday to nine months hard labour. He was placed also under police su- pervision for two years.

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The Standing Committee of the Central Executive Committee of the Kuomintang has decided to permanently expell Chu Min-yi, once Secretary-General of the Executive Yuan, from the Kuo- mintang for his afliation with Wang Ching-wel, and to request the National Government to ar- rest and punish him according to law. It is understood that the decision was made after a petition;

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