HUNS’ LOW DIET.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XXII, Issue 5853, 28 September 1917, Page 7

HUNS’ LOW DIET.

From an authoritative source, states the London “Daily Mail,” it is learned that while the' shortage of grain arid flour in Germany isi very serious and the potato and meat'supplies are running out, the drastic: measures of control will enable the people to hold out till next harvest and possibly till the harvest of 1918. But the lack of suitable and sufficient food is lowering more anti morei the general health. Evidence of thi-s is a new epidemic of hodily swellings, for which many aa - e tnlder hospital treatment. They improve rapidly on a good 'diet. The birthrate' in Leipzig has sunk from 246 a week in the first quarter of 1914 to 137 a week this year New-born babies are often un healthy and sometimes not covered with good skin, and it is even reported from a German source that owing to the deprivation of fatty foold the time of expectant mothers lias been prolonged and that a- royal mother's baby was dead-born. The German soap substitute has neither fat nor oil in it. It injures the skin and well-off women find their hands covered with sores for want of proper washing. Princesses have written to friends in neutral countries begging if or a few pieces of real soap. And. as Professor Delmer testified, in the “Daily Mail” recently, some common Dutch soap was readily bought up in Berlin at £1 10s per lb. *