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- Title
Australian School Milk Schemes to 1974: For the Benefit of Whom?
- Authors
Thorley, Virginia
- Abstract
Australia's nationally implemented school milk scheme provided liquid cow's milk in special one-third pint bottles to school children from its inception in 1951 (1953 in Queensland) until 1974, at no cost to their parents. This article places the national scheme in the context of improving the safety of liquid cow's milk, dairy marketing, the British school milk scheme, and earlier state-based schemes. It discusses the establishment of this school milk scheme, and the reasons for its eventual and sudden demise.
- Subjects
QUEENSLAND; AUSTRALIA; SCHOOL milk programs; SCHOOLS; TUBERCULOSIS in cattle; AGRICULTURE; 20TH century Australian history; DAIRY product marketing; CHILD nutrition; TWENTIETH century; HISTORY; GOVERNMENT policy
- Publication
Health & History: Journal of the Australian & New Zealand Society for the History of Medicine, 2014, Vol 16, Issue 2, p63
- ISSN
1442-1771
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5401/healthhist.16.2.0063