'MILK POLICY.
[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] .
SIR,—In your note about the Memorandum presented. to the Ministry of Health by the. Children's Minimum Council you refer to the quotation, by the Minister of Airiaidttire of the. statement made by the . Economic. Research Institute of Oxford that the biggest obstacles. in the way of increasing the consumption of milk were antipathy, indifference and prejudice. It is not disputed that a very large number of women and yoling -Children do not get the milk they ought to have, and it is not disputed that a great many of these families cannot afford to buy the milk they need. Do these families go short because they -cannot afford the milk, or do they go short because they are indifferent and prejudiced ? The Children's Minimum Council have submitted a scheme for bringing milk within the means of the people who cannot afford the milk they ought to have. If Mr. -Morrison's point is that the Government do not consider it worth while making milk available because the women and children would not drink it one would like to know what steps the Ministry are taking to counteract such extremely serious antipathy, indifference and prejudice. If the recent speeches by Ministers are simply a preliminary to turning down.any.national. cheap milk scheme, I would suggest that the Government should be prcssed to work the C.M.C. scheme in suitable industrial and rural areas as a large-sCale experiment. —I am, Sir, &c.,
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