| Description | Lists members present, with Captain M Greenwood in attendance. Gives committee business -- signing of last meeting's minutes -- addition of Col W W O Beveridge and Fleet Surgeon P H Boyden as Committee members, representing the Inter Allied Sanitation Commission -- Paton's decision not to issue the Committee's report on concentrated livestock feed -- a request from the Wheat Commission for the Committee to analyse samples of native milled Burma white rice -- decision to appoint a special section of the Physiology Sub-Committee to draw up a list of factors to use in calculating the nutritive value of foods, and adoption of thermal coefficients for use in calculating food requirements -- a letter from the Working Classes Cost of Living Committee requesting figures for their report -- consideration of a proposal for research into metabolic requirements of different classes, through experiments in munitions factories, lathe workshops, public schools and the Royal Air Force -- a memo from A D Waller on 'the expression of man power in terms of horse power' -- consideration of a letter from Miss May Yates asking if alcoholism and dental caries were deficiency diseases -- agreement to distribute Col Horrocks' report on energy expenditure of recruits in training, and a memo on meat production by K J J Mackenzie and F H A Marshall -- a resolution 'to call the attention of the Food Controller to the desirability of insuring a proper distribution of pure milk of the highest standards'. p254-263. |