UK TV History Channel "Nation in Film" 1930s C.H.

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UK TV History Channel "Nation in Film" 1930s C.H.

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I was watching"Nation in Film" on freeview yesterday.

The narrator explained that the film that would follow was made in the '30s by The Gas Board,keen to show they had a social conscience, and was about the "importance of diet to good health".

The film was presented in the '30s by someone called Julian Huxley (pos. related to Aldhous?) and had several shots of the boys of CH ,mostly in the dining hall with the commentary that the statistics showed that their good, school diet meant they were several inches taller than their "working class" contemporaries who were not at C.H.
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Good school diet... sounds unlikely!
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Hence the recent Bristol University study of CH Blues.

An interesting point in question.

Did you know that at present more is spent per head, per meal on prisoners holidaying courtesy of Her Maj. than on school pupils school meals in State schools ?

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