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summarises the: League of Nations' "Interim Report of the Mixed Committee on' tho Problem of Nutrition" (Allan and Unwin, 2s.)

UST as a starving man, gazing hungrily at the food he is denied, may yield to 'an ungovernable impulse and smash the plate-glass win- dow, so, too, with hungry nations craning over the bar- riers of their own economis nationalism. aaa

But the Ast which does the smashing may be the mailed nat of armed Dictatorship.

In the one case, it is called "larceny," and in the other, "economic expansion."

But in a world of abundance. the privation which drives elther an individual or a nation to despera- tion is intolerable.

World Challenge

That in made abundantly plain in this report of the committee, of which Lord Astor is chairman and on which are represented the League of Nations Health Commit- tee, the International Labour Office and the International Insti- The other tute of Agriculture.

delegate British

La Professor Edward Mellanby, Secretary- Cleneral of the Medical Research Council.

It is a challenge to the world to And salvation in healthy, well-fed people, to "marry health to agri- culture," with Peace as the sacra ment: It extends the British find- Ings of Sir John Orr to the whole world:

"The economic interests of the community as a whole are bound up in maintaining the standard of the among physical efficiency people and laying the foundations of the health and well-being of

the generations," future

Kays report.

Moreover there is a definite social and political interest in the accomplishment of this task, owing to the well-ascertained relation- ship between the deficiency of food, and especially of protective foods, and social unrest.

It takes as. its background the polley of the International Labour ofce that " raising living, stand- ards in all countries is a condition sine qua non of social justice and peace.

"Just as there are supreme National Defence Councils and National Economie Councils, 50 National there should also be Food Council.

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-Raise Incomes ! --- And-the-function of those.State. councils would be to soo, that ade- quate food was available for every- one, watch family budgets, control food resources.

The question of income is at the root of the workers' nutrition problem."

The report shows that what Bir John Orr showed in Britain, is

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THE WORLD

Starves Its

true elsewhere--" The average diet

of the lower income groups is in- adequate for good health.

"At the most legislative control alms at asturing a living wage or a reasonable wage.' These are concepts which assume levels of nutrition actually existent rather than ideal standards."

The "Depression" behind which So many Governments took refuge from the blaine for social is was not the cause of the widespread malnutrition; it only intensified the existing ill,

"Adequate nutrition cannot be assured by a polley directed exclu- the sively towards countering efacts of the depression

The main cause of malnutrition In poverty. Malnutrition can never be overcome when poverty is principal cause, except by increas- ing the income of the poor."

The report argues that the price of foodstuffs could be substantially reduced by limiting the dispropor- Lonate costs of distribution.

-Starvation Facts

What a picture the report paints of a half-starved world!

Mothers dying because they have either been denied food as chil- dren, and, through rickets, have contracted skeletons which in- crease the risks of childbirth, or because they have given what nourishment they received to their unborn child and have no resist ance to infection or endurance

In America, 316 out of 570 mothers suffered painful muscular soreness because they were giving out of their own bodies to their unborn children more calcium than they were getting in their diet.

So, too, in Norway, three-fourths of the mothers were calcium def- cient.

In London, 50 per cent. of nurs- ing mothers examined ansmic.

were

Among the infants, the League of Nations inquiry found that in- fant mortality was largely due to "the pernicious combination-of-- poverty and ignorance."

Among the pro-school children the appears malformations of bones, abnormality of the pharynx due to bad feeding. The five-year- olds examined on entering London schools were found to have 67 per cent. to 80 per cent, abnormality

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of the bones, 07 per cent, to 82 per cent. of adenolds, septic tonsils, etc., and 88 per cent, to 03 per cent. badly formed or decayed teeth.

·Damaged Goods.

In an American city, 90 per cent. were found to be receiving inade- quate food.

"In the early stages of school- life many of the children are already damaged goods."

And then they attack the deâni- tion of "malnutrition," behind which the authorities have shel- tered so complacently, based on measurements and weight.

"Whereas such results of Im-

до teoding proper

subnormal growth and weight can usually be rapidly improved by better feed- ing, the more chronic conditions cannot be so easily remedied.... Prevention rather than treatment of the disease must be more em-- phatically stressed.

Even on the present basis of diagnosis there is abundant evi- dence of malnutrition-20 per cent. to 30 per cent. of the children in RS the poor quarters of Paris... frequent in Jugoslavia... in Poland, 25 per cent. ill-nourished in certain regions, 7 per cent. of them threatened with tuberculosis. and 50 per cent. requiring addi- tional meals. in U.B., 71 million .nearly children undernourished

all the children of the Negro popu- lation of New York wero suffering from rickets...83 per cent, of the children of Connecticut... 43 per cent, of the children in the villages of North Norway...33 to 07 per cent, in the two northern counties of Sweden."

Recruits-

Tuberculosis is increasing among the adolescents, and particularly among young girls.

"This state of affairs has been, ascribed by some to the modern habit of slimming; by others to the greater expenditure dictated

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"Whatever the explanation, it is undoubted that many adolescents in all countries, particularly Indus- trial ones, aro being improperly nourished at the present time."

Boys and girls entering industry with good physique at 14 to 10 have deteriorated by 18.

In Belgium, from the examina- tion of 49,000 recruits, physical t- ness had declined as compared with 1014.

In Denmark, a third of the ro- cruits present symptoms of "Danish disenso" (flat feet, var!-

cose veing, pains in the extremi- ties and cramp in the calf of the leg).

In Finland, 21 per cent, of re- cruits were rejected as a result of "General malnutrition among the poorer classes."

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proportion of men, rejected "has risen between 1923 and 1932 from 45.25 to 67.70 per thousand?

Starvation, they point out, is rampant even in rural areas.

The Committee, among its main interim recommendations to the Assembly, urged that Governments. should

Consider what steps should be taken, whether at the public charge or otherwise, to meet the nutritional needs of the lower In- come sections of the community;

Consider whether any modica- tton of their general economic and commercial policy is desirable to ensure adequate supplies of food- stuffs, and, in particular, to assist the re-orientation of agricultural policy:

Take all possible steps to maku food supplies available at prices within the reach of all classes;

and Tako, steps to improve cheapen marketing and encourage collaboration between co-operative and other forms of producers' and consumers' organisations.

-Way To Peace...............

This is only a preamble to the full report, but it already points the way to the nations to a world based upon Health economy through the proper distribution of the wealth of food and the proper organisation of agriculture; to a world peace through healthy minds In healthy bodies; to a true 20th century civilisation.

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