RICH CHILD DYSPEPTIC

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17061, 20 September 1929, Page 4

RICH CHILD DYSPEPTIC

BEEF FOR BOYS LIFE “ONE LONG HUSTLE” LONDON, August 2. “Wo find more dyspepsia in the well-to-do child, whose food is fairly well managed, but whose school life s one long hustle.” This statement was made Jiy Dr. Chodalc Gregory, a woman doctor of medicine, during a discussion at the British Medical Association Congress in Manchester. “The schoolboy gets practically no leisure at ail,” she continued. “I am not suggesting that- every time a child gets a ‘tummy-ache’ ho has to be sent to a psycho-analyst, but I think we should look at the treatment of dyspepsia from the psychologist’s point of view. We should try to use our influence to lessen the hustle of the modern child’s life. “The schools in which schoolmasters recognise the value of leisure are exceedingly few.” Professor F. Langmoad said: “There are many Jack Sprats among children, who cat no fat voluntarily. If made to do so they suffer from dyspepsia.” Professor Vining, of Leeds, advocated a generous diet for children. “I doubt very much whether you can over-feed a child of school age so long as you only give it three meals a day. Tho ordinary school child requires large quantities of food.” QUESTION OF DIET It was, lie said, inborn in the mind of well-to-do people that no child should he allowed to cat meat, and that it was tho man of 40 who should eat beef steak, while the child should exist on such things as rice puddings, potatoes, and gravy. “I would put it the other way,” said Professor Vining. “The man should have tho small amount and the growing child a liberal amount of animal protein.” Dr. Dan McKenzie, of the Central London Throat and Ear Hospital, said there was a bewildering shower of remedies for the common cold in the head, but: “There is .indeed no practical method of preventing this contagious disease, and there is no specific cure. The coldwalcr, open-air crank puts down all ills that flesh is heir to, and specially nasal catarrh, to living and working indoors. But this is tho 20fh century. Few of us can afford to revert to savagery.’’ The long and skinny daughters of the crank, he said, were sent out to face the nor’-easter “partly nude and purple.”