Contents

Figures and Tables

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1 Establishing a Food Surveillance System in Canada

2 Infant Mortality, Malnutrition, and Social Reform Prior to the First World War

3 The Medical Profession and Infant Feeding to the 1920s

4 Cow’s Milk: A New Image for the 1920s

5 The First National Infant Feeding Guidelines in Canada

6 Food Safety and Marketing and the Role of the Medical Profession in Dispensing Nutritional Advice in the 1930s

7 Food Supply during the Depression

8 Mortality from Nutritional Deficiency Diseases during the Depression

9 The Canadian Council on Nutrition and the First National Dietary Standard

Conclusion

References

Index