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cottages at reasonable rents are required; the rent
charged for the new buildings causes tenants to meet
it by taking lodgers.
I still hold the opinion that for the improvement of
the public health a knowledge and use of what is
proper for food is the important thing.
The defects of nutrition so common amongst the
children attending the elementary schools will persist
so long as their parents will not realise that, as the
means at their disposal compel them to make bread
the chief article in the daily diet, by using a bread
deprived of the indispensable food values contained in
the germ, and—to a slighter degree—in the coat of the
wheat grain, they are excluding from the children's
food that which is absolutely necessary for healthy
growth.
This is no longer a matter of conjecture; it has
been proved many times by the experimental feeding
of both birds and animals.
An objection has been raised that flour containing
the germ will not keep well. If that be so, then let the
wheat grain be imported whole and labour be employed
in milling it in this country.
No matter how efficiently the people be housed,
how well they be clothed, if they be not properlv fed
physical defects will follow; the first requirement of
all living things is that they get adequate nourishment.
W. HABGOOD.