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My thanks are also due to Sister Elinor, Miss Rutherfurd, and Mrs Scott 
for supplying the names of families for visitation ; and to the workers at 
Queen Margaret Settlement, to Miss Walker and other ladies connected 
with Bridgeton District Office of the Charity Organisation Society, to the 
students of the Physiology class and to Dr Madge Robertson, all of whom 
very materially helped the investigation by visiting the homes daily and 
weighing the food. 
Finally, I desire to acknowledge the extent to which I am indebted to 
Professor D. Noel Paton, who suggested and planned the work, and was 
always ready with kindly criticism and advice. 
NOTE ADDED 15 TH MARCH 1917. 
The delay in publication has afforded an opportunity of comparing some 
of the foregoing diets with those of the same families since the Food 
Controller on February 2nd issued an appeal to the nation to adopt 
voluntarily a system of rationing, calling upon heads of families to try to 
limit their weekly purchases of the three staple articles of food for each 
person in the household to the following quantities : — 
Bread .... 4 lb., or Flour 3 lb. 
Meat . . . . . 2^ lb. 
Sugar . . . . f lb. 
During the last week of February ten families, in all of which the 
father was the only wage-earner, were studied in the same manner as 
before. Only two of the house-mothers had heard of the ration, and 
neither of these had made any effort to confine herself in her purchases to 
the suggested quantities. 
Income. 
At the time of the first study two of the families belonged to group C, 
four to group D, one to group F, and three to group S (see p. 123). When 
the second study was made, five of the ten householders were absent on 
military service, and one, who was with the army during the first study, 
had been discharged and was making 30s. a week, thus bringing the family 
into group D. 
