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(d) CHEMICAL AND BACTERIOLOGICAL
EXAMINATION OF FOOD.
Any chemical and bacteriological work which is required
in connection with food is carried out by the Clinical
Research Association.
FOOD HANDLING AND FOOD EXPOSURE.
I cannot report that the unnecessary handling of food
has ceased. I hear, and occasionally see, evidence of it,
especially at confectioners.
Bread continues to be ill-used, dropped in the road, left
on door steps, and will still be polluted until the public
demand that it must be delivered in a paper bag, or covering
of some kind.
NUTRITION.
The question of nutrition, of food allowances necessary
to maintain health and working capacity, is perhaps not of
so great importance in this district as in so many that have
large institutions to administer, but is certainly of interest
to families and Individuals, especially in these days of unemployment.
Recently two Committees have been making careful
scientific investigations of this matter on quite different
lines, viz. : the Permanent Advisory Committee of the
Ministry of Health and the ad hoc Committee of the British
Medical Association.
These Committees have now agreed as to the minimum
allowance required by men, women, boys, girls and children
—in heavy, moderate, or light work—only as an average,
as no definite well defined scale can be arranged for in
human affairs.
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