The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-10-12

1 and some sixteen or eighteen otheS subsidiary bureaus attached to var" ious departments.
 The main health deficiency iH Chile is malnutrition. Malnutritiot1 impairs the physical development of infants and children. The Commit tees study of health conditions showed that the Chilean people ob- tain their food principally from wheat and potatoes. Excellent basic foods, both of them, but inadequate to maintain good, not to mention optimal nutrition, health, physical growth and vitality or vite, as we now call the state of optinal nutri- ton, unless supplemented with cer- tain other foods.
 From Dr. Coke's address quote this striking statement:
 "If it is remembered that milk is the principal material for the build- ing of a race, irreplaceable by any other food in nearly all cases, that 1t is the most important of the pro- tective foods, and that according to our own studies and those of our co-workers 1t has, furthermore, an inhibitory action of precocious sex- ual development, the primary inter- est of the Department of Public Health, Social Security and Welfare in its maximum consumption will be understood"
 Attempts to decrease infant mor- tality are useless if the child and the nursing mother do not get suf- fcient milk, and moral education of children becomes purposeless if through lack of milk puberty is ad. vanced and, with this, precocious differentiations result in organic and psychologist unbalance. Dr. Coke says the consumption of milk in Chile is only one-fifth to one.tenth as much as the per capita consump- ton in the United States.
 Milk, butter, cheese, eggs, fresh fruits, green fresh vegetables and fresh meat are the foods which best supplement wheat and potatoes. Milk, cheese, eggs and green fresh vegetables supply needed calcium; fresh lean meat is the richest source of phosphorus. The Chilean Minis- try of Health has decided that the phosphorus deficiency can be solved over a number of years by increased use of phosphate fertilizers. But at present the ministry advocates add ing sodium acid phosphate, about 4 per cent, to common table salt.
 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Hot Flashes
 and many of my friends are passing through the menopause. Only trouble we have is unpleasant hot flashes. Will these ever stop? Will any remedy relieve them now? (Mrs. M. L.)
 Answer--Many women never have them. They continue to trouble more or less for three or four years, on the average. Semi-weekly or weekly hypodermic injections .oyare ian ormone-variously called theeA lin, amniotin, anterior pituitary like hormone, etc.-give consider able relief. .,
 Blood Pressure z WLldb lS tllS UlOOu PESoSuIS 4OE H woman of thirty? Does 1t go up or down when . woman is pregnant2 (Mrs. c. H.
 Answer-Blood pressure in won- an aged thirty should be normal. It does not vary from normal during pregnancy. Send ten cent coin and stamped envelope bearing your ad- dress, for booklet Preparing for Maternity"
 Gas
 Suggest remedy for gas on stoni- ach. Otherwise person pretty well. co. L0 .s 't ',.. .''..
 Answer-No harm, at any rate, in trying ten grains calcium carbonate (prepared chalk or precipitated chalk) two or three times a day or whenever troubled with "acidity" or "gas."
 Copyright, 1887, John F. Dille Coo