Comments from Sir Clifford Allbutt on the proposed milk ration Notes that the ration is more liberal than pre-war consumption -- that there is a difficulty in determining flat rates, expecially for infants -- that [healthy adults] can go without milk. Suggests that a leaflet be issue with the ration to urge mothers to suckle their children, as the 'shirking by working mothers, and well-to-do self-indulgent mothers, is unpatriotic' and that rations may thus be saved -- notes that babies are often crying out of thirst and should be given water at such times rather than milk. 10 November 1917