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[NOTE: It is a matter of historical record that Seventh-day Ad-
ventist health institutions in their early days served flesh meat in a
greater or lesser degree to patients and helpers. The reform in this
phase of healthful living was progressive. In the older institutions,
after a long struggle, flesh meat was eventually discarded from all
tables. In the case of the Battle Creek Sanitarium this step was taken in
1898, largely in response to counsel from Mrs. White’s pen appearing
in this chapter (722). At the St. Helena Sanitarium the change took
place in 1903. By this time education in the matter of a nonflesh diet
had spread widely, and flesh was left out of the dietary of the guests
with less difficulty than if it had been excluded at an earlier date. It
was a joy to the managers of the older institutions to know that in the
new plants opened at about this time, flesh food was not served to the
patients.]