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The Calcutta Municipal Gazette. Saturday 10th August 1946

1946

It is exactly with this end in view that the Corporation on the 24th July last formed at the instance of the Deputy Mayor a Special Committee to devise ways and means for giving some immediate relief to the citizens from the effects of the prevailing high prices of all edibles in the City. [...] The most important lesson to be learnt from the famine is the need for an organisation charged with the duty of providing reliable information with regard to the nutritional condition of the people and of preparing regular forecasts based on the observed trends of population and food production to show what is likely to happen not only in seasons of normal harvest. [...] Without a careful examination of all the circumstances it would be rash to express a dogmatic opinion about the significance of the figures but the recurrence in rapid succession in 1938 and 1941 of so exceptio:ial a feature in the statistics suggests that the nutritional condition of the people of Bengal was approacing the critical point at which the reproductive capacity of the people begins [...] The crux of the whole problem is how to bring about the necessary change in the outlook on life of the people and I still think that the best way of dealing with this essential aspect of the situation would be by the appointment of a Commission of the kind asked for more than 20 years ago by the medical research workers of India. [...] WHAT HAS TO BE DONE The simplicity of the problem in principle and the obvious nature of the solution are in very sharp contrast w:ith the extreme difficulty of applying the solution; but if the gravity of the situation were fully realised the people would be eager to unite in saving the country from disaster.
government politics public policy
Pages
149
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.100008
Segment Pages Author Actions
Cover
i-v Amal Home view
Frontmatter
i-xvii Amal Home view
A Message from the Mayor
i-i Amal Home view
A Message from the Deputy Mayor
i-i Amal Home view
Editorial
i-ii Amal Home view
Post-Mortem on the Last Bengal Famine
1-4 John Megaw view
India & World Famine
5-v S. N. Ghosh view
A Wrong Approach
vi-xii Kali Ghosh view
The “Cultivable Waste”: Our Only Salvation
9-12 Atual Banerjea view
Income and Food Prices
i-iii B. V. Roy view
Balance of Diet
iv-v M. N. Sarkar view
Principle and Practice of Rationing
vi-ix Sudhir Ray Chaudhuri view
Food Situation in Bengal with Special Reference to Rationing
x-xii A. C. Ukil view
Nutritional Aspects of Reduced Rations
xiii-xv K. Mitra view
Vitamins
13-15 Saudur Rahman view
Carrots : a New Source of Vitamin
16-16 Madan Barman view
Eat More Vegetables
i-ii Hirendra Ganguli view
Calcutta and its “Grow More Food” Campaign
iii-iii Abdus Sattar view
Fighting this Famine from within the Corporation
iv-x Gosto Sett view
Can Calcutta Grow More Food?
xi-xii Sailapati Chatterji view
Government Measures to Increase Bengal’s Food Production
17-19 Amal Home view
Wanted More than a Mere Campaign
20-22 Phani Samanta view
Fruits and Vegetables of Bengal
23-26 S. Hedayetullah view
Short Notes on Some Common Vegetables
27-30 Debnath Bahadur view
Your Kitchen Garden
31-36 Amal Home view
Preparation of Manure
37-37 Jatindra Dutta view
Economic Uses of Dehydrated Food
38-40 Santosh Chatterjee view
The Week in the Corporation
317-321 Amal Home view
Increased Food Production and Artificial Manures
322-325 Bankim Mukherji view
Health & Hygiene
326-328 Amal Home view
Letter to the Editor
329-329 Amal Home view
Calcutta News & Views
329-331 Amal Home view
Civic News from Far and Near
332-333 Amal Home view
Vital Statistics
333-334 Amal Home view
Corporation and Market Notices
335-348 Amal Home view
Backmatter
i-ii Amal Home view