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nutrition of families of small means, particularly families in which there are 

 many small children. Present food conditions also obviously demand of all 

 eharitable societies which administer material relief that they revise and 

 study carefully the money standards of income which they are providing. 



A dietary for miners, S. H. Brockunieb (Enpin. and ilin. Jour., 105 (1918), 

 No. 14, PP- 627-630). — A discussion of methods of feeding employees at mining 

 camps. Economy in the purchase of food and efficiency in purchasing and 

 preparation is recommended. Calculations showing the food requirements of 

 miners, tables presenting a balanced ration designed to be in accordance with 

 the best dietetic theory and conforming to actual experience In mining camps, 

 the preparation of lunch buckets, weights and prewar costs, and suggestions 

 for war economies and conservation are included. 



A further study of the diets of laboring class families in Glasgow in war 

 time, Maboabez I. II. Femtosou (Proa Roy. Boo. r.dinb.. 38 (1917-18), No. l. 

 pp. 40-47). — The diets of eight of the families previously reported i K. S. It.. 

 38, p. 287) were studied for the third time in November, 1917. The income 

 of the families varied from 31 to 90a per week, in two of the families the 

 energy value had Increased over the last study; six families showed an lucre 

 In protein consumption, the average over the whole being 0.3 Km.; live shov 

 an increased use of fat, averaging 7 gnx per man per day. No loss than 86 

 per cent of the energy was obtained from the rationed foods, while in 1915 

 they yielded only 76 per cent 



An inquiry into the composition of dietaries, with special reference to the 

 dietaries of munition workers, DfM.nK ami M. QnSKNWOOP (Nat. Health 

 his. Med. Research Committee [Qt. Brit.}. Spec. Rpt. Ber., No. tS (1918). pp. 

 48). — This report is based upon Information collected In 1917 In English board 

 ing houses for munition workers, The report contains an introductory section 

 in which the modern experimental work on dietetics is reviewed and dietary 

 standards are discussed. This is followed by sections on the statistics of 

 working-class diets collected before the war. statistics of working-class di< 

 In war time, the war-time dietaries of Germans, and the voluntary ration. 

 A more detailed discussion is given in the appendix of the sciomilic study of 

 " bioenergetics," statistical evidence respecting working-class dietaries, and 

 also includes an article, by Bliss B. M. ('lnystal, on Food In Hostels. 



The food ration of the soldier. M. Boknand {Mitt. I <i,rnsin. Vntosurh. it. 

 Hyp., Bchweiz. Qendhteamt., 7 (1916), No. t-&, pp. 1-M«i.— -This is a compila- 

 tion of data on the Standard war rations of different countries, with particular 

 reference to that of the Swiss A tiny. The value in army feeding of canned 

 soups, vegetables, and meat; alcoholic beverages; and purified drinking water 

 is discussed. 



Malnutrition among school children [Med, Reo. [ V. V.]. 93 {1918), No. 8, pp. 

 311-318). — Malnutrition is deemed one of tho most potent factors hindering 

 the normal course of the child's development. Statistics are cited to show that 

 for the first nine months of the year 1917 in New York City p.'.i per cent of tin- 

 school children were undernourished. The causes of malnutrition were divided 

 Into two groups, external and intrinsic. The first group includes unpropitlous 

 environment, poverty, Ignorance, and bad domestic management The second 

 Includes digestive, respiratory, and circulatory disablements, as well as those 

 arising from had heredity. Various agencies dealing with the problem of mal- 

 nutrition are discussed, and recommendations are made. 



A food poisoning outbreak at Brighton. W. <;. Savack and I>. Foams (Jowr. 

 Hyp. [Cambridge}, n (1918), ffo. ',. pp. /'-'" \W).— A food poisoning outbreak 

 at the Royal Sussex County Hospital is described which is considered to he due 



