THE VALUE OF MILK

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22519, 13 March 1935, Page 5

THE VALUE OF MILK

TO THE EDITOR

Sin, —Our Governor-General, in a speech at Auckland last week, stressed the value of milk as a food. This is an ever vital question, as the child which is now deprived of the life-giving food is to be a future citizen of our country. It is all very fine to talk of population, etc., when many parents are at their wits' end to know what to do. The Medical Conference has commented on the prevalence of goitre. It may be that sufferers have insufficient milk in their diet. A growing child, for instance, deprived ot its milk and butter, soon deyelops into a consumptive state, and when he is 17 or 18 years of age Jie is put on a milk and cream diet; perhaps too late. If milk and cream are ordered at that age, why not give it to little children now, and prevent a terrible scourge later on Sound bones and lungs can never come from a person starved of proper fats, etc. Now i s the time for our country's leaders to act, instead, of waiting until we have to build sanatoria to house the sick. It is the duty of every woman in the country to see that her child gets milk, but how can they do this 0 unless our country's leaders help? Prevention is better than cure. The onlv way to make healthy citizens is to see that their childhood is not starved of the healthgiving food of Nature, which is milk.—l am. etc., One ok the Watchers. Oamaru.