DIET AND PLAIN LANGUAGE
[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.]
SIR,—With reference to the correspondence opened in your columns last week advocating "liaison officers" to explain the science of dietetics to country audiences in Women's Institutes, &c., may I point out that the Health Lecture Department of the British Red Cross Society gives a course of dietetics entitled "Food and Digestion" as Series IV of their "How to Keep Well" Lectures ? This course, which is given by qualified Health Visitors and Trained Nurses, is exceedingly successful. Some of the lecturers ask their pupils, all country women, at the end of the course to produce budgets of expenses and well-balanced food for families of different sizes. These are extremely well thought out and prove that the women have assimilated the instruction given.
The fees for these lectures are paid by the British Red Cross Society in co-operation with the Dental Board of the United Kingdom, leaving the organisations concerned to pay only the lecturer's travelling expenses.
Any information as to syllabuses and conditions that you or Professor Mottram would like to have as to these courses will willingly be furnished by my department of the British Red Cross Society.—I am, Sir, pars, &C., ANNE STRACHEY. Organiser, Health Lecture Department, British Red Cross Society.
14 Grosvenor Crescent, London, S. W. i.
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