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VIII.—The Family Budgets and Dietaries of Forty Labouring Class Families in Glasgow in War Time.*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 September 2014

Margaret Ferguson
Margaret Ferguson
Affiliation:
Department of Physiology, University of Glasgow
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The following study of the diet of labouring class families in Glasgow was made as part of an investigation upon the etiology of rickets at present being carried out in the Physiological Department of the University of Glasgow. But the information gathered by Miss Lindsay in her study of the diet of the same class in 1911–1912 makes possible a very interesting comparison between the conditions of living then and under the present war conditions, and the fact that these studies extended over three periods—(1) Summer of 1915, (2) Winter of 1915, (3) Spring of 1916 —enables some idea of the progressive effects of war conditions to be obtained. Forty families have been studied.

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Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh , Volume 37 , 1918 , pp. 117 - 136
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Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1918

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page 117 note † Report on the Study of the Diet of Labouring Class Families in Glasgow.

page 117 note ‡ In February 1917 a second study was made of the dietaries of ten of the families. The results are given in a note at the end of this paper.

page 118 note * The schedules of the individual dietaries studies are not published as they were in Miss Lindsay's report, but they are preserved in the Physiological Laboratory, where they may be consulted.

page 119 note * Income is based on information supplied by the house-mothers. In no case was the employer appealed to for verification.

page 120 note * On account of the smaller families the expenditure on food appears to be less than in 1911–12, but it is actually greater, being equivalent to an expenditure of 24s. 10d. for families having the same number of “men per day” as the earlier studies.

page 128 note * From price list kindly supplied by the Scottish Wholesale Co-operative Society, Ltd. These are the prices at which the central society sells to the branches.

page 135 note * The dietary requirements “per person,” taking into account the proportionate number of men, women, and children in the community, has been estimated by the Food Committee of the Royal Society at 77 of that of a man at moderate labour (“The Food Supply of the United Kingdom,” Cd. 8421). This figure was used in making these calculations.