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tative of each of the following bodies:—Invalid Children's Aid
Association, Insurance Committee for the County of London, War
Pensions Committee, Miller Hospital, Friendly Societies, Trades
Unions, Panel Committee for the County of London, Soldiers and
Sailors Families' Association and British Red Cross. There are three
representatives of social and charitable organisations, whilst the Medical
Officer of Health, Tuberculosis Officer, Divisional School Medical
Officer, District Organiser of School Care Committee and Secretary of
the Committee make up the number. There is also provision for one
member of the District Nursing Association, at the moment vacant.
A return is given each month to the Public Health Committee of
the Secretary's visits. The principal duties of the After Care Committee
are—to assess cases, receive reports on children in sanatoria or
hospitals, receive reports on cases on return home, to endeavour to find
work for patients, to obtain clothing for patients entering sanatoria, etc.,
from the Guardians, Charity Organisation Society, the Red Cross
Society, and Soldiers' and Sailors' Fund. To all of these our hearty
thanks go out for much kindness received. May we especially thank
Mr. Cornish, of the Guardians.
A REVIEW OF FOOD LEGISLATION.
The importance of adequate and correct nutrition cannot be too
strongly emphasised. Feeding, in fact, makes or mars a nation's
health; and such is the close relation between health and proper
nutrition that no nation can afford to neglect anything favouring the
establishment and maintenance of a sound and wholesome food supply
and the propagation among the people of a knowledge of nutrition
sufficient to enable them to model their daily dietary on lines indicated
by latest scientific knowledge.
In particular there is called for some means of protecting the public
from the few who fail to realise their responsibilities and who deliberately
or otherwise tamper with the national food supplies, either by
adulteration, or by the addition of undesirable chemical preservatives,
or, again, by exposing food to contamination with dirt and infection by
micro-organisms with subsequent grave danger to the health of the
consumer.