Originally published in 1985, Diet and Health in Modern Britain examines the changes in diet and health in Britain during the rapid social development of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It is particularly concerned with the ways in which the problems of urban life were ameliorated.
Originally published in 1985, Diet and Health in Modern Britain examines the changes in diet and health in Britain during the rapid social development of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It is particularly concerned with the ways in which the problems of urban life were ameliorated. How was infant and child mortality reduced? How did family life go on in conditions where income was low and sometimes intermittent, where protected water supplies and proper sanitation were not available, and where food preservation and food technology were still limited? How did the state devise diets for those in its care? What were the choices available for consumers?
The contributors to this book were historians and nutritionists and this gives a strong interdisciplinary flavour to the volume. Many of the problems encountered during British urban development were being experienced in the developing world at the time. The way in which Britain coped with the health hazards of late-nineteenth-century urban squalor had much to tell those concerned with similar problems in contemporary cities in the developing world. The book makes clear that life in Britain in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries and life in the developing world at the time represented similar stages of the process of demographic transition.
List of Tables and Figures. Introduction.
1. Science and Practice in
Arable Farming 19101950 Colin Holmes
2. The Impact of Modern Food Technology
on Nutrition in the Twentieth Century Magnus Pyke
3. The Retail and Wholesale
Meat Trade 18801939 Richard Perren
4. The Demand for Meat in England and
Wales between the Two World Wars Forrest Capie
5. Changes in the Brewing
Industry in the Twentieth Century John Mark
6. The Production and Marketing
of Fruit and Vegetables 18501950 Peter Atkins
7. The Nutritional Importance
of Fruit and Vegetables Arnold Bender
8. Infant Feeding, Sanitation and
Diarrhoea in Colliery Communities 18801911 Ian Buchanan
9. Feeding the
Hungry Schoolchild in the First Half of the Twentieth Century John Hurt
10.
Local Prison Diets 18351878 Valerie Johnston
11. The Public House Reform
Movement Robert Thorne
12. Rationing and Economic Constraints on Food
Consumption Since the Second World War Dorothy Hollingsworth
13. Mans Demand
for Energy Derek Miller
14. The Cost of Nutrients in the First Half of the
Twentieth Century Pamela Mumford
15. The Founding Fathers of the Nutrition
Society Alice Copping. Contributors.
Derek J. Oddy (19312018) was, at the time of original publication, Principal Lecturer in Modern Economic History at the Polytechnic of Central London, UK.
Derek S. Miller was, at the time of original publication, Research Fellow at the Department of Nutrition, Queen Elizabeth College, London, UK.
