[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Mr. Robert Hutchison's logic
would seem to be in need of ventilation. If the " advantage," where bread is the main constituent of the diet, " lies on the whole with stone-milled flour," then a good half of our population would benefit by eating wholemeal bread. If the latter is thus better, " espe- cially for children," the agitation in its favour is handsomely worth while.
The " reasonably mixed diet " in modern conditions is not possible to the purses of the preponderating poor, for whom, therefore, the kind of bread selected matters all too much. And to claim that national health and stamina are " not inferior to what they were seventy or eighty years ago "- which is simply to say that medical science has not made us any worse—does not justify your correspondent in seeking to argue a projected improvement into Limbo.
That this controversy " is really not worth all the space you have lately been devoting to it," Sir, is not a fact, but a matter of opinion. If Mr. Hutchison had said, with equal finality, that white bread, for those who have to eat it dis- proportionately, is not worth all the space it takes up in their " interiors," he would, I submit, have been on much firmer I have assumed that your correspondent was writing in his non-medical capacity. Hence my allusion to him as " Mr.". Hutchison.
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