§ Mr. Rankinasked the Secretary of State for the Colonies if he has now studied the Report of the Second Inter-African Conference on Nutrition in Africa South of the Sahara held in 1952; if he is aware that the conference agreed that malnutrition in many areas of Africa is the cause of ill-health and disease, and that these occur in people whose diet is deficient in quantity and quality of its protein content; what steps are now being taken to put the recommendations of the conference into effect in those parts of Africa for which he is responsible; and when the next conference is to be held.
§ Mr. Lennox-BoydI am well aware of the pronouncement in question, which, with the other findings of the conference, was brought to the notice of the Governments concerned some years ago. Following the conference an international panel of nutrition correspondents was set up under the auspices of the Commission for Technical Co-operation in Africa South of the Sahara (CCTA)and a great deal of work in this field has since been done by the local health, agricultural and education services, by various international agencies, by the Applied Nutrition Unit and by the Human Nutrition Research Unit of the Medical Research Council. The third conference was held in Luanda in October, 1956.