Milk for the Schools The proposal that surplus milk, at
present sold at a low rate for' manufacturing purposes, should be given instead to school children who urgently need such nourish- ment carries its own recommendation on its face. It was, in fact, put forward 'by Mr. H. V. Hodson in an article in The Spectator a fortnight ago. Many details need to be arranged, but the Board of Education and the Milk Marketing Board between them are perfectly capable of working out a plan. But milk is not just milk. There is good milk, of which the more drunk the better, and there is bad milk, full of tubercle infection, which ought to be kept from any children who are getting it now rather than given to fresh children who are not getting it. No more need be said about that here, for it will be discussed at greater length in The Spectator next week. In general the slogan, " Drink More Milk " needs to be lengthened into " Drink More Milk and Better Milk."
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