Health Education Journal

At a recent exhibition on adolescence organised at the Annual Conference of the Buckinghamshire Mothers' Clubs an interesting exhibit was designed to show the part played by Charles Dickens in alleviating the abuses of the early nineteenth century, and it is an interesting example of how the historical approach can be exploited in exhibition material. The following report was made by the Hon. Secretary of the club responsible for pre paring the exhibit.

The tenth anniversary of the founding of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations fell on October 16, 1955. Though many of the problems of F.A.O. seem a bit remote from the English scene, most people will agree that in raising the health standards of the world its work is as important as that of the World Health Organiza tion. Problems of nutrition throughout most of the world are the fundamental problems, and with increasing survival due to better preventive medicine, the nutritional problems in many areas are becoming more, rather than less, pressing.