Report on the physiological bases of nutrition / by the Technical Commission appointed by the Health Committee.

Date:
1935
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    INTRODUCTION The following have been the main stages of the work: In 1925, upon the proposal of the Yugoslav delegation, the Assembly (sixth session) requested the Health Committee to study “ the methods to be recommended sale of food products.” In October 1928, at the thirteenth session of the Health Committee, Professor Léon Bernard asked, on behalf of the French Government, for nutrition to be placed on the programme of work of the Committee. of nutrition and its applications by Professor T. Saiki, Director of the Imperial Institute of Nutrition of Tokyo, and his assistants (“ Progress of the Science of Nutrition in Japan”, document C.H.523). In 1927, Professor T. Saiki, under the auspices of the Health Organisation, gave a series of lectures on nutrition in the United States of America, Argentine, Brazil and Chile. The same year, the Chief of the Department of Applied Science in the Institute of Tokyo came to study problems of nutrition in the United Kingdom ) 5 My A 4 A i Ae Oe 3 Payee Yat ee ee eet veh, 4 J . ch 54s oe oe ig) NE hay a a age Oa YP F453 ON Lh eae sg cnet 4 a pl gorety fa vied Lhe of Europe. In 1926-27, the Health Section arranged for the visit of the late Professor Egerton Grey of the University of Cairo to the Tokyo Institute, and published in 1928 his valuable report entitled “ The Food of Japan ” (document C.H.861). supply of milk in the United States. Two of the participants, Professor R. Burri and Dr. G. S. Wilson, summarised their observations in memoranda published in the Quarterly Bulletin of the Health Organisation, Vol. I, Nos. 1 and 4. At the same time, the hygiene of milk was studied by Professor J. Parisot in the Department of Meurthe-et-Moselle (Quarterly Bulletin, Vol. III, No. 4). In 1932, the Government of Chile requested the collaboration of the League of to a double enquiry—economic and medical—which was begun in 1935. ; In October 1932, at its nineteenth session, the Health Committee decided to undertake the study of the effects of the economic crisis on public health, with particular reference to conditions of under-nutrition produced by the crisis. In the Quarterly Bulletin was published in 1933 a study by Dr. Mackenzie on the administrative machinery by which the nourishment of the poor is assured in the United Kingdom (Vol. II, No. 2) and a study by Dr. W. R. Aykroyd on “ Diet in telation to Small- Incomes * (Vol lL iNos. 1 and .2). In 1932, two Conferences of Experts were convened in connection with the studies on nutrition. They did not only deal with the conditions brought about by the economic crisis, they also considered the fundamental data of the problem and dealt with the principles of an adequate diet. (a) The Conference of Experts at Kome (September 1932) considered the .
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