Institutional Feeding—A Challenge

Hospitals

“…In drawing up guidelines for the provision of food in institutions there is little to add which has not already been said in the past. Writing for the American Journal of Public Health, in 1955, the chief nutritionist for the State Board of Health in Indianapolis laid out the objectives of a new institutional feeding programme (Dunham, 1955). These were to: standardise the food service • establish uniformity in distribution of food • provide suffi cient amounts of the right kinds of food to meet the nutrition needs • of the patients and employees of these institutions initiate an economical food purchasing programme (Dunham, 1955).…”