Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 160, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 July 1919 — Rationing and Improved Health. [ARTICLE]

Rationing and Improved Health.

It is not true .stat under rationing the health of the nation “is suffering from lack of good food,” says the Weekly Scotsman. “On the contrary, the health of the children In the schools has never been so good, and but for the influenza epidemic the death rate would In all probability never have been so low. Of essential foods everyone has had enough. Butter has been short precisely because it was necessary to safeguard the children’s milk, but no .one who understands the work done by the ‘ministry of food in securing the raw material for, and arranging the manufacture of, margarine will say that the subject of fat in general has been neglected.”