Budgetary and Dietary Surveys of Families and Individuals. Part 2

I would like before we begin the meeting to draw your attention to "Food Consumption Levels", published by the Stationery Office (Special Joint Committee Set up by the Combined Food Board, 1944).There is there a passage which is very appropriate today, where it is stated that general food production levels in the United States of America, Canada and the United Kingdom are based on the supplies moving into civilian consumption.The body that drew up this publication makes the remark on page 24: "There is need for adequate dietary survey data as an indication of the relative positions of different occupational, income, regional or other groups of the population".One of its recommendations is that more work should be done, and the meeting today is exactly on this point.I hope contributors' papers, and others, will have some observations which will be very useful to further work.