Nutrition and Food Supplies
1936-09 1936 1930s 33 pages : illustration other school equipment. The machinery would not be difficult — it could be developed from the existing machinery for the milk in schools scheme. Arrangements could be made for the distribution of milk at week-ends and holidays. But the foundatio...
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| Institution: | MCR - The Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick |
| Language: | English English |
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London : The Labour Party
September 1936
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| Summary: | 1936-09
1936
1930s
33 pages : illustration
other school equipment. The machinery would not be difficult — it could be developed from the existing machinery for the milk in schools scheme. Arrangements could be made for the distribution of milk at week-ends and holidays. But the foundations of a child’s health are laid in the pre-natal period, and we must begin with the expectant mother, the nursing mother and the pre-school child. While in many areas the Maternity and Child Welfare Centres could be used to provide milk for mothers and toddlers, these centres do not yet cover the population adequately and a more satisfactory plan would be to issue a milk card to all expectant mothers, nursing mothers and mothers of young children to enable them to receive milk on presenting the card to a recognised retailer. This free provision should be available to the wives of men who are insured under the National Health Insurance Act, and to insured women, and to mothers who come within the Insurance income limit though they are not insured. Free provision of milk on this scale would result in a substantial improvement in our health standards: and the cost is not likely to exceed £20 million. LABOUR POLICY The Labour Party has an excellent policy for long-term planning of food production and imports. We would urge the Party to give attention to a further elaboration of its policy in relation to present knowledge of Nutrition, with a view to ensuring adequate consumption by the whole population of body-building and protective foods. We suggest the following points for consideration : 1. A scheme for the provision of milk for mothers and children on the lines suggested above. 2. The planning of increased home production of essential health foods — milk, eggs, fruit, vegetables, dairy produce, meat, fish. 3. In giving effect to the Party’s marketing policy, with its plans for Import Boards and Commodity Boards to regulate supplies, the foodstuffs mentioned above should be dealt with first. 28
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