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AN appeal has been circulated by the Children's Minimum Council, 72 Horseferry Road, S.W.I, for the improvement of the nutrition of children, and to ensure that no child, by reason of the poverty of its parents, be deprived of at least the minimum of food and other requirements necessary for full health. The Council desires that free milk may be available for all school children, and also midday meals in all schools under local education authorities. Where the expenditure available for food is insufficient, it urges the provision of cheap milk for expectant and nursing mothers and children under school age, and free meals for older children. It is maintained that if the known deficiencies in the national dietary were made good, a revolutionary improvement in the public health would certainly follow. The Council needs an income of at least £1,000 a year for the continuance and expansion of its work, and subscriptions are invited for this purpose.
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Improvement of Child Nutrition. Nature 142, 1114 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/1421114c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/1421114c0