The Diet and Health of South African Natives (1938)

From the May 1938 issue of the Socialist Standard

Cavalcade (April 2nd, 1938) publishes the statement that Dr. E. H. Culvea, of the South African Health Department, finds three-quarters of the native population underfed and that tuberculosis is rampant. Other South African doctors who have assisted in the official investigation report that the consumption of milk among natives at Port Elizabeth is about one-fifth of a pint per head; while the doctors there recommend at least a pint a day as a preventive of tuberculosis. When free distribution of milk was started two years ago they found that thousands of children, white as well as black, had never tasted it before.

Pioneers of Empire have a lot to answer for!