A Specimen Diet. At British Medical Association prices the diet could be bought for 5s IOJd. • Beef, lib; in J meat, bacon, and corned beef, each Jib; ox liver, 31b; eggs, 2oz; cheese, >]lb; milk, lfjpt; fish (cod), J,lb; butter, suet, loz; lard, :Üb; flour, 4Jlb; or bread, 7ilb; sugar, lib; jam, 31b; potatoes, 51b; peas (dried), 41b; tea, jib; oatmeal, jtlb; rics, 31b; syrup (treacle), ilb; cabbage, lib; beans (bucter), barley, Jib; fresh fruit, —; vegetables, —. The committee considers that children between one year and five years of age should have a pint of milk a day, and between five years and 10 years half a pint a day. Boys more than 14 need as much food as a man.
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Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 21050, 29 December 1933, Page 11
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