POORER DIET IN GERMANY
Many Persons Are Under-Nourished POSSIBLE DANGER TO HEALTH (United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright) (Received April 30, 7.35 p.m.) WASHINGTON, April 29. An analysis by the Department of Agriculture shows that Germany entered the present war with a large proportion of her population already inadequately nourished. In 1937 the diet was at least 15 pel - cent, below both the 1927 and pre-Great War levels. There are reasons to assume that it had further deteriorated between 1937 and August 1939. The analysis added that the situation was not likely to result in serious maladjustments in the first year of the war, but the staying powers, and probably the health, of those outside the preferred ration category will be endangered unless it is possible to augment the normal consumer ration.
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Southland Times, Issue 24114, 1 May 1940, Page 7
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