ADEQUATE DIET FOR POOR
WOULD CAUSE A FARMING BOOM
(Received 10 a.m.)
LONDON, February 3,
Sir John Orr, the nutrition authority, in a speech at the Farmers’ Club, elaborated his idea of a fanning boom if the poor had an adequate diet.
He said that approximately 4,500,000 people who are existing on an average of only 4/ a week
each for food, are definitely suf-
fering from deficiency in healthgiving substances.
Their consumption of meat, eggs, fruit and vegetables must be increased by from 12 to 25 per cent, in order to bring their diets to "the standard required for health. Twice that increase would be required to bring their diet to the standard of the well-to-do classes.
There would be a great national need for increased production of foodstuffs, which must be made available to the poor at below the existing prices by means of a subsidy if necessary.
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Northern Advocate, 5 February 1936, Page 7
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