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42. ADULTERATION, ETC.
The Food and Drugs (Adulteration) Act, 1928, and kindred Acts and Regulations
are administered in this district by the Essex County Council.
I am indebted to Mr. II. C. Card Chief Food and Drugs Officer for the Metropolitan
Area of the Essex County Council, for the particulars of samples purchased
and submitted for analysis during the year. These samples are submitted for
chemical examination to Dr. Bernard Dyer, the County Analyst, Great Tower Street,
London.
Other
Milk. Butter. Samples. Total.
43 68 112 223
Four proceedings were instituted in relation to these samples during the period
covered.
43. NUTRITION.
You are particularly interested in the education of the public with reference
to nutrition, but I think, as I told you last year, that there need not be a lot of
scientific training of the public in the nutritive value of various foods, if, by
administration, a straightforward food is made available for the public at a price
the public arc able to pay and if that food is as widely variable as possible.
We find there is need to teach people that it is not always the most expensive
foods which are the most nutritious. By the courtesy of the Director of Education,
I am able to say that this is done in ail your schools, and on our part we are constantly
advising this at your health centres and when your Health Visitors visit the
mothers in their own homes.
So long as we have people living in rooms, with no proper cooking apparatus,
we must suffer as a race, so far as nutrition is concerned, and also so long as we have
houses with no proper accommodation for the storage of food, we must similarly
suffer.
We find that young mothers are positively anxious to avail themselves of all
information that we can give, and I feel confident that, if they are given reasonable
opportunities of buying the food and cooking the food, the old reproach of
families being fed from a frying pan and with a tin opener will be a very stale joke
indeed.