Show I EMERGENCY RATIONS PERFECTED I THAT THAT seamen clinging to life rafts raUs JL might have a better chance of survival three Canadian naval men have brought out q 0 J new emergency ration container which has been adopted by the Royal Canadian Navy and bids fair tah to set the pace in this field for Cor the rest of the Allied Nations It culminates seven months of stud study laboratory experIments and exacting work by Lt James Campbell Camp Camp- bell shown in photo lower left biochemist of the Navys Navy's special branch an and director of the I z- z R ay y w r y I Honal section of the Navys Navy's Medi Medical cal Research unit Toronto Surgeon Lieutenant J J. E E. deBelle RC N V R. R in peacetime general superintendent ent of oC the Childrens Children's Memorial hospital in m Montreal and Lieutenant Reginald Regin aId ald W. W Millard technical expert of Naval Stores Stoics of or Vancouver As a result of ot their labors they have havo produced 1 A kit no bigger than miladys milady's oV overnight t bag weighing 17 IT fc pounds coated with a water salt resisting resisting re reo re- re paint and costing in the neIghborhood of oC 2 A water can which holds 16 ounces of or water and which has been subjected to temperatures as low as 15 degrees below zero without breaking 3 A chocolate ration bar which will stand heat to a temperature of degrees without melting 4 A chocolate tablet ration which is 70 per cent whole milk is palatable 5 A small food container only slightly larger than a sardine tin which holds 12 of these tablets 12 concentrated c biscuits nid nd two bars r ii i. i i r. r n q 1 y y r 1 N J Ji a i A I 1 s s r y r f of chocolate enough to last a 3 man two days and which upon being emptied becomes become a drinking cup with one ounce one ounce and two ounce two ounce measurements l on its side Photo at right light shows Lt Campbell demonstrating demonstrating demonstrating demon demon- use of oC the di inking drinking cup to toan toan toan an interested WREN Photo nt at top left WRENs Frances Frances Fran Fran- ces Alley and Marjorie McKeag are i sampling the emergency biscuit I rations One of oC the interesting scientific i factors about ah th the ration is that thai all allI I foods In have err n r roc so 60 hat the they would stand up to sterilization without spoiling This in itself entailed entailed entailed en en- tailed months of gruelling laboratory labora labora- laboratory tory work Already Aheady of the new containers contain ers have been ordered Some have alread already gone to Canadian ships It is planned to place four foul on each man 10 rats raft and eight on each man raft There is only one set of or instructions instructions instructions printed on the side of tho rho container con I tanner talner Eat slowly High c calorie caloric lo lc content of or the concentrated foods roods i i lake nake this Imperative |