WESTERN COUNTRIES ONLY

Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 35, 11 February 1936, Page 9

WESTERN COUNTRIES ONLY

(Received February 11, 2.15 p.m.) GENEVA, February 10. The League of Nations Committee has decided for the present to confine the nutrition inquiry to Western countries.

In September last, Mr. Bruce, Australian High Commissioner, conferred with Sir Samuel Hoare (then British. Foreign Minister) in reference to the Australian plan for bringing co-ordina-tion in the health and agriculture administrations prominently before' the League Assembly. A requisition to that effect was signed by all the leading agricultural and consuming countries, except Russia, and the matten was debated in the Assembly shortly, afterwards.

The resolution which Mr. Bruca placed before the Assembly in effect urged Governments to examine practical means of securing increased consumption of foods, and invited the League Council to instruct its technical organisations to collect information on the measures of. various countries for improved nutrition through, increased consumption of food. Mr. Bruce argued that by the increased consumption of certain foodstuffs specified diseases could be eliminated and that unless the people were given the benefit of science social upheaval was inevitable.

The Assembly unanimously accepted the resolution and decided to appoint a committee of experts to go into the question of extending the League's health organisation on nutrition in relation to public health.