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Hong Kong, man eating rice

Hong Kong, man eating rice
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View the original, larger copy of this image at the UWM website: http://collections.lib.uwm.edu/u?/agsphoto,4045

Date picture taken (may be approximate): 
Monday, January 1, 1940
Gallery: 
1940-41 Harrison Forman's photos
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Submitted by moddsey on Sat, 2009-04-04 08:53.

This photo was taken inside the Hennessy Road food kitchen operated by the Salvation Army in November 1940. A similar photo appeared in the Hong Kong Telegraph on 23 November showing a blind mendicant eagerly partaking in his food ration which consisted of a congee mix of ordinary and red rice, soya beans, meat, potato, liver and vegetable.

Red rice contained the Vitamin B factor against beri-beri.