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The food problem in wartime from the standpoint of a physician, L. 

 Devoto {Atti Soc. Ital. Prog. Sci. [Rome], 8 {1916), pp. 475-50Q). -A summary 

 of generally accepted principles in nutrition, with special reference to the 

 economic effects resulting from underfeeding during the present war. 



The increase in the cost of food for different classes of society since the 

 outbreak of war, Frances Wood {Jour. Roy. Statis. Soc, 19 {1916), No. If, pp. 

 501-508). — A summary and digest of statistical data. 



The food value of Great Britain's food supply, W. H. Thompson {Econ. 

 Proc. Roy. Dublin Soc, 2 {1916), No. 11, pp. 168-220) .—This paper reports the 

 results of a survey of the food supply. This included a collection of data 

 regarding the total quantity of food available; a study of the quantities of 

 protein, fat, carbohydrate, and energy which these foods would furnish ; and 

 a calculation of the quantity of food available per inhabitant. The average 

 daily ration per person thus obtained is compared with the requirements of a 

 number of European and American dietary standards. 



A bibliography and an appendix of statistical data are included. 



The German food supply and its political economy, H. Schumacher 

 {Deutsche Volkserndhruny und Volksernahrungspolitik im Kriege. Berlin: 

 Carl Heymann, 1915, pp. VII +92). — The opening sections of this pamphlet deal 

 with the domestic food supply and possible ways of increasing it by means of 

 reclaimed land, improved methods of agriculture, and a more careful utiliza- 

 tion of the available fertilizers. There is a brief discussion of the food mate- 

 rials formerly imported and means of meeting the deficiency occasioned by 

 the shutting off of trade. 



In considering the measures taken by the Government to regulate the utiliza- 

 tion of the available food supply, special emphasis is laid on the laws govern- 

 ing the consumption of breadstufEs and the economic reasons for high prices 

 and price control. The relation of feeding stuffs to human food is also dwelt 

 on, with particular emphasis on the utilization of potatoes. 



The appendix reprints a poster addressed to German women, written by the 

 author and used extensively in railway stations, in which the necessity for 

 small economies is emphasized. There is .also a memorandum of practical 

 means of reducing consumption in the kitchen and of advice in choosing and 

 storing foodstuffs, and a brief bibliography of the general subject of the 

 pamphlet. 



Studies on the growth of man, I-IV, T. B. Robertson {Amer. Jour. Physiol., 

 37 {1915), No. 1, pp. 1-42, 74-85, figs. 2; U {1916), No. 5, pp. 535-546, 547-554, 

 figs. 4)- — Four articles are presented. 



I. The prebuttal and postnatal growth of infants (pp. 1-42). — This article is 

 a study of various characteristics of the growth of infants, based upon statis- 

 tical data in a large maternity hospital. 



II. The postnatal loss of weight in infants and the compensatory overgrowth 

 which succeeds it (pp. 74-S5) . — In the case of a lai*ge number of South Australian 

 infants it was found that male and female infants suffered an equal retardation 

 of growth, which after one week was 9.2 per cent of the weight at birth. By 

 the end of the second week 48 per cent of the loss in the case of the male and 

 84 per cent in the case of the female had been regained. The entire loss was 

 made good at the end of the first month. 



III. The growth of British infants during the first year succeeding birth 

 (pp. 535-546). — The data reported in this paper are based on records supplied 

 by infant welfare associations in the cities of London and Leeds. From these 

 data a curve was constructed showing the growth of British infants during the 

 postnatal period of 12 months, and determinations were made of variations due 



