Economic and financial section > Problem of nutrition

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Consumption statistics per head of population for 1934 were as follows :
Kg.
Potatoes 932 (highest figure in Europe)
Rye 159 (highest figure in Europe)
Wheat 51 (lowest figure in Europe)
Sugar 9.8
Coffee 0.2
Rice 1.4
Meat 18.61
An enquiry carried out in respect of four wage-groups showed that
only a very small proportion of the budget of working-class families
(four persons) is spent on food—viz.:
Group
Zloty per annum
Spent on food
% of the total
(а) 1,527 66.1
(б) 2,386 60.1
(c) 3,230 54.9
(^) 4,995 44-6
The annual consumption of the chief articles of food (men) was
(a)
(&)
<c)
(d)
Bread
Kg.
172.2
146.6
I56.O
122.3
Potatoes
Kg.
169.7
204.O
204.7
193-6
Milk
Litres
38.7
77-4
93-4
125.0
Butter
Kg.
1.0
1- 7
2- 4
3- 6
Eggs
Kg.
O.7
2.2
3-5
7.0
Meat
Kg.
19-73
32.6
50.9
69.2
Fats
Kg.
8.1
13.6
15-7
14.0
Sugar
Kg.
11.7
20.6
22.8
29.6
Fruit
Kg.
2.1
8-3
IO.3
28.5
This very inadequate dietary is, nevertheless, luxurious compared
with that of the unemployed.
Education.
The Polish Health Association has a food rationalisation section with
a domestic economy institute. The object of this section is to make a
scientific study of nutrition problems, and to disseminate a knowledge
of these problems by means of lectures, exhibitions and publications
(articles in the bi-monthly review Public Health and articles in the daily
Press).
Propaganda on rational nutrition is carried on in towns and villages
by various scientific and social institutions, which arrange courses
on domestic economy, lectures, talks, etc.
Instruction on rational nutrition is given in schools of all types, and
attention is drawn to the importance of health and to the nutritive
value of the various foods in the growth of the human body.