The British Food Journal Volume 63 Issue 2 1961

Abstract

The enormous improvement in child health in this country—in infant mortality and morbidity, in physical growth and well‐being, are self‐evident. Not only do we see the physical improvement in our children, but it strikes visitors from overseas more forcibly, and there can be few other countries in the world which can boast such swarms of healthy, vigorous children. If this was preventive medicine's only success, it would be worth many times over the money spent on this branch of the National Health Service, which is little enough in all conscience: about £20 millions a year compared with over £400 millions for curative medicine. Can any of the undoubted great and dramatic advances of the latter match the far‐reaching effects of this one achievement of preventive medicine?

Citation

(1961), "The British Food Journal Volume 63 Issue 2 1961", British Food Journal, Vol. 63 No. 2, pp. 13-24. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb011586