Volume 1

First report / Committee on Nutrition in the Colonial Empire.

  • Great Britain. Committee on Nutrition in the Colonial Empire.
Date:
1939
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    dry season grazing areas, camel’s milk, ghee and mutton have become more plentiful and the physical condition of the tribes has correspondingly improved. 5. Researches and Surveys.—Hitherto very little has been done beyond the researches of Buchanan referred to above. At present there are small laboratories attached to the Medical and Veterinary Departments. The Committee recommend as highly advantageous a direct and intimate research co-operation with the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan which faces nutritional problems of a similar nature. 6. Practical Measures for Improvement of Nutnition.—The Committee strongly recommends the establishment of a Maternity and Child Welfare Centre. See also under para- graph 4 above. KENYA. Area: 224,900 sq. miles. Devi aie: No So ge : 7836 Infant Mortahty: eure auete - a bee oe available. Natives inn Bh LOOSOFO Others ne 1,587 , Olek. A820 ns 20 I. General.—No special Committee has been appointed. The opinion is expressed that the necessary co-operation in nutrition work between the Administration, Agricultural, Veterinary and Medical Departments can be secured without the appointment of a local Nutrition Committee. In the memorandum forwarded by the Kenya Government, it is emphasised that the knowledge already gained regarding the nutrition of Kenya natives is very considerable and that, indeed, research has tended in recent years to move ahead of agricultural practice and policy. The report submitted from Kenya deals chiefly with the necessity for reflecting in agricultural policy the knowledge of nutrition already available, second place being given to the medical and research outlook on the subject. 2. Composition and Nutritive Value of Dietary.—| For a sum- mary of the numerous published papers on Kenya dietetics reference may be made to Nutrition Research in the British Colonial Empire, Imperial Bureau of Animal Nutrition, Tech. Communication No. 8, 1937, pp. 6-10. .Price Is.]. The diet of the native in the reserves is varied in quantity, although in some respects qualitatively deficient. Different tribes have entirely different dietary habits. For example, the diet of