Journal of the Gujarat Research Society July 1948

Jivraj Mehta the first Chairman of the Medical sub-committee and a Vice-President of the Society to the hard work of the two research workers Dr. [...] Jhatakia and his collaborators who have conducted the studies under the guidance of the Honorary Physicians of the Sir Harkisondas Hospital and with the close coperation of the authorities and medical and pathological departments of the Hospital has produced a comprehensive and instructive report. [...] Medical supervision of work and play of the food that people eat of public provision for rest and recuperation as well as periodical medical examination and the rectification of faulty modes of life will be some of the many new duties that the physician of the future will be called upon to undertake." Professor Henry E. Sigerist has well described the physician of tomorrow in the following words [...] The advantages of a socialised medical service for the community are (a) the provision of equal attention to the rich and the poor alike ; (b) the creation of an integrated curative and preventive service ; (c) extension of health services to sparsely populated regions which prove unattractive to private practitioners and (d) the training of medical men and other health personnel in numbers suffic [...] In calclating the food values of the diet of institutions like hostels little difficulty is eperienced as all the members are usually adults belonging to the same age group."166 JOURNAL OF THE GUJARAT RESEARCH SOCIETY In estimating the diet of families the matter is different as the age in each family varies in wide range and the diet of each family or its members varies considerably both