ROAST BEEF INDICTED.

Bush Advocate, Volume XXI, Issue 94, 19 October 1908, Page 3

ROAST BEEF INDICTED.

CHEESE-FISH DIET.uWeD

, The roast beef. of old England received a severe blow at a sectional meeting «f the British Medical Congress at Sheffield recently.' Lieuten-ant-Colonel Daviest, professor of hygiene at the Royal Army Medical College; Major R. J. J. Blackburn, Major G. 5. . -Crawford, both of. tlie Royal Army Medical Corps, and Captain W. Sinclair, R.A.M.C. (Militia), in papers in the section devoted to the Army, the Navy, and ambulance work, all agreed that abundance of meat was quite unnecessary, and that cheese and fish, both of which were cheap, were excellent nutritious food.

Major Blackburn said that experiments had rather iijteet the popular notion that roast beef was the solid foundation of the British Army.

Lieutenant-Colonel Fotheringh'am

agreed that cheese had an extreme value as ail article of food. An attempt had been made to introduce it into the rations of the Canadian soldiers, but they were palpably not cheese eaters, and the savoury item had to In* abolished because of the abominable waste that went on.

It was urged that the revision of soldiers' rations should provide for a better supply of fish, while a bread and cheese supper would prevent. -a "great deal of unnecessary drinking.

Buckets of cold water were also poured on alcohol by Major Predmore, who, speaking from a long experience in India, said he had proved that non-drinkers were far more immune from sunstroke than those who did drink alcohol.

Major Blackburn, after pointing out that he held rio brief for total ab-> stainors, said experience had taiight him that not only was alcohol best left alone by the soldier, but even in the hospitals its use, even on scientific grounds, could rarely be justified. ~Dr James Kingston Fowler, president of the Medical Society of London, in the course of an address on the subject of Medicine, said he looked to a more general use of sanatoria for a variety of affections other than tuberculosis.

"As the advantage of an ojien air life, combined with careful medical 'supervision, became better known," said Dr Fowler, "the sea '' voyage, which so often means life in a windy passage on deck and a stuffy cabin below, and the hotel at a- health resort on the Continent, where influenza perhaps is rife, will be replac; ed by sanatoria."