WORST IN WORLD

Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 36, 6 November 1933, Page 8

WORST IN WORLD

Teeth of New Zealanders TOO LITTLE MILK DRUNK Dominion Special Service. Dunedin, November 4. Miss K. Landreth, M.A., M.Sc., a graduate of Otago University, who has returned after studying home science and home economies in America, in an address to dairymen on the value of milk as a food, said that milk was one of the most important factors contributing to healthy and normal teeth and bone development. She did not wish to injure New Zealand’s dental reputation, but the teeth in 'this country were probably the worst in the world. The average consumption of milk per person in New Zealand was about half a pint a day, a long way, indeed, from the American standard of a quart a day for the child. When it was considered that New Zealand was a dairying country, with the income of a great section of its people depending on the sale of dairy products, it seemed little short of pathetic that children should be starving for a diet so essential. Children were drinking tea when they Should be drinking milk. "I believe a good deal is being done in the mater of marketing New Zealand dairy produce, but I can’t help feeling that a wonderful opportunity is being neglected in ignoring the home market,” said Miss Landreth. “If this were looked to it would be a blessing to Now Zealand teeth.”