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International Journal of Epidemiology 2001;30:223-225
© International Epidemiological Association 2001

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Commentary: The contexts of the Carnegie Survey 1937–1940, and Isabella Leitch's ‘Growth and health’delivered to the Nutrition Society in October 1950

David F Smith

Department of History, University of Aberdeen, Old Brewery, Aberdeen AB24 3UB. E-mail: dfsmith@abdn.ac.uk

In April 1936, at a meeting of a Sub-Committee of the Advisory Committee on Nutrition of the Minister of Health for England and Wales and Secretary of State for Scotland, there was a discussion of John Boyd Orr's recently published Food, Health and Income.1 The book included a graph of height against age for different groups, showing that at age 14 some public school boys, later revealed to be from Eton College,2 were, on average, over five inches taller than some council school boys. Orr, director of the Rowett Research Institute near Aberdeen, commented that this was to be expected when the diets of the two groups were compared. But the minutes of the meeting record a discussion between JN Buchan, a medical officer of health, EP Cathcart, professor of physiology at Glasgow University, HE Magee of the Ministry of Health and E Mellanby of the Medical Research Council (MRC), . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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