Children and young people / Ministry of Food.

  • Great Britain. Ministry of Food.
Date:
[1949?]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Children and young people / Ministry of Food. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    MRS.A.G.TsCORDER, FOOD ADVICE, PO@SEAN COURT. OUR FOOD TO-DAY No. 3 OF FOOD MINISTRY CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE This 1s No. 3 of the sertes entitled “‘ Our Food To-Day.”’ Each booklet provides in convement form an account of some section of the work of the Ministry of Food. Care has been taken to see that facts and figures are correct at the date of publication, but the booklets are not intended to be quoted as legal authorities, for which purpose reference should be made to the relevant Statutory Instruments. Growing children need extra nourishment of a kind which cannot be supplied by unrationed food ; the Ministry of Food therefore makes special arrangements for the feeding of children and young people. These arrangements are of three kinds : first, the special provision of certain foods for the individual child and the expectant and nursing mother ; second, assistance to the extension of the meals service in schools and Non-Residential Day Nurseries; and third, the provision of rationed and controlled foods for clubs, centres, camps and similar institutions for young people, and of National Milk Cocoa for adolescents. I. SPECIAL PROVISION FOR THE INDIVIDUAL CHILD AND MOTHER Children do not receive a higher level of ordinary rations than adults, but arrangements are made to supply them with extra protective foods: milk (or National Dried Milk), dried eggs, orange juice and cod liver oil. To ensure the adequate nutrition of the child before birth, extra food is made available to expectant mothers during pregnancy. On presentation of a medical certificate signed by a doctor, health visitor or certified midwife, the local Food Office issue a supplementary Ration Book R.B.7, which, in addition to extra milk, orange juice and cod liver oil (or Vitamin A and D tablets) under the Welfare Foods Service, provides the expectant mother with an extra half- ration of meat and an extra shell egg at each allocation. The certificate of pregnancy must be renewed at the end of four months. The Welfare Foods Service, which is associated with the Family Allowances Scheme, provides liquid milk at 14d. per pint (or, as an alternative for infants under one year of age, National Dried Milk at 104d. per 20 oz. tin) and orange juice at 5d. per bottle. Cod liver oil (or, as an alternative for expectant mothers, Vitamin A & D tablets) is provided free of charge. Vitamin A & D tablets are supplied to mothers for 30 weeks after confinement. Application may be made to the Local Food Office on application form W.F.1 (revised) for free supplies of all these foods. They are allowed automatically to expectant mothers and children under school age in families which are in receipt of public assistance or of payments from the Assistance Board. In other cases the income is investigated locally by the Assistance Board, who recommend whether free benefit is required. ‘“Tuberculin Tested ” and other special grades of milk are obtainable under the scheme provided that the parent pays the additional cost.