THE FOOD FOR THE CHILD.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18685, 15 April 1924, Page 5

THE FOOD FOR THE CHILD.

WARNING BY A DOCTOR. MILK AND FRUIT NECESSARY, At the annual meeting of the New Isouth Wales branch of s the i Public \ Health v Association of Australasia, i which was held in Sydney, Dr.;; Harvey Sutton, in his presidential address, laid particular ! em--phasis on the : ill-effects of mahantdtion with which, he said,' at least temper cent, of our child life was affected. The question of malnutrition, he j said, was bound up with that of dietary, and,.'ia a great measure its prevalence' was due to the fact that children of the present day partook of the same food as adults, prepared and artificial foods being substituted tor. the pure foods.. In this way the constitutionof the child was deprived of the vitamines which are so essential to . its normal development. . , for Milk was tie ideal the childhood, he continued. He &"&)** time had come to "»«#«*•*^lularlv food, -rtaAste-fists in regard to f T^d Arrangements that could not be replaced. "*3* „>&,; were being competed. *te Ss San throurh the schools, at a rate ies» •«» inroucu u»p scheme should enable ■SffiS — for the small cost of a P«nnj cheaply to the An offer to supply children had eful that a would be,made. v; feS£fSf!S?«& problems of v»le»t .ifthsm relation, to the "safety first"deatns_j»..■« , c&ncer m eaao», Dr. Orat aduTte should SbeW; B fTL Sese dangers. He deplored f U i -5 scSifi^ver^gation; of cancer ? aC lniraJia,aud remarked that £1,000,000 wouSTwell *** profitably spent in thk way. •• ______——«--^-— . : -' .'■' : :