191G-17.] Labouring Class Dietaries in War Time. 
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VIII. — The Family Budgets and Dietaries of Forty Labouring Class 
Families in Glasgow in War Time.* By Margaret Ferguson, 
from the Department of Physiology, University of Glasgow. Com- 
municated by Professor D. Noel Paton. 
(MS. received December 1, 1916. Read December 18, 1916.) 
CONTENTS. 
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I. Introduction . . . . . . . .117 
II. Income . . . . . . . . . .119 
III. Expenditure ......... 120 
A. Food ......... 121 
1. Efficiency of the Diets . . . . . .121 
2. Nature of Foodstuffs . . . . . . .124 
3. Cost of Food per Id. ....... 124 
B. Housing and Rent . . . . . . .129 
C. Other Expenditure ....... 129 
D. Change in the Cost of Living . . . . . .130 
Conclusions ......... 131 
I. Introduction. 
The following study of the diet of labouring class families in Glasgow was 
made as part of an investigation upon the etiology of rickets at present 
being carried out in the Physiological Department of the University of 
Glasgow. But the information gathered by Miss Lindsay in her study of 
the diet of the same class in 1911-1912 f makes possible a very interesting 
comparison between the conditions of living then and under the present 
war conditions, and the fact that these studies extended over three periods — 
(1) Summer of 1915, (2) Winter of 1915, (3) Spring of 1916 j — enables 
some idea of the progressive effects of war conditions to be obtained. 
Forty families have been studied. 
From the nature of the investigation, families have been chosen where 
there are young children. In fourteen of the families the children looked 
healthy and well nourished. In the other twenty-six , one child at least, 
and in most cases more than one child, suffered from rickets. 
* The expenses of the investigation were defrayed by the Medical Research Committee 
under the National Health Insurance Act. 
t Report on the Study of the Diet of Labouring Class Families in Glasgow. 
I In February 1917 a second study was made of the dietaries of ten of the families. 
The results are given in a note at the end of this paper. 
