BUTTER CONSUMPTION

Ellesmere Guardian, Volume LVI, Issue 86, 12 November 1935, Page 8

BUTTER CONSUMPTION

PLACE IN BRITAIN'S DIET

RATIONS IN INSTITUTIONS

The" importance now being attached to improved nutrition by the British Government and health authorities in Britain is tending to give butter and cheese an entrenched place in dietary standards. An English correspondent states: "Inquiries recently made on an extensive scale among county and city councils in all parts of the country reveal that butter, as well as fresh milk, is becoming a recognised feature of the diet in public institutions. In some of the institutions formerly under the control of boards of guardians the butter ration is nearly 50 per cent, more than the average national consumption for 1934. During that year the population of the United Kingdom consumed 25.21b. of butter a head, or 6?>lb. a head more than in 1930—but the allowance in some of the institutions controlled by local authorities is as high as lOoz. to 12oz. a week. "It is rather astonishing to find that butter still finds no part in the prescribed dietary of the fighting forces. When the facts concerning national nutrition in its private and public aspects are more fully investigated the authorities may give serious consideration to the matter of seeing that the troops, the Navy and the Air Force, are not worse treated in respect of allowance of dairy pro-

ducts than inmates of institutions which are a charge upon public rates and taxes."