The Feeding of School Children
The Ratan Tata Foundation
(University Of London)
The Feeding Of School Children
Mildred Emily Bulkley
With An Introductory Note By
R. H. Tawney
Director of the Ratan Tata Foundation
London
G. Bell And Sons, Ltd.
1914
Honorary Director : Professor L. T. Hobhouse, M.A., D.Lit. Honorary Secretary : Professor E. J. Urwick, M.A. Director : Mr. R. H. Tawney, B.A. Secretary : Miss M. E. Bulkley, B.Sc.
The Ratan Tata Foundation has been instituted in order to promote the study and further the knowledge of methods of preventing and relieving poverty and destitution. For the furtherance of this purpose the Foundation conducts inquiries into wages and the cost of living, methods of preventing and diminishing unemployment, measures affecting the health and well-being of workers, public and private agencies for the relief of destitution, and kindred matters. The results of its principal researches will be published in pamphlet or book form; it will also issue occasional notes on questions of the day under the heading of Memoranda on Problems of Poverty. In addition to these methods of publishing information, the Officers of the Foundation will, as far as is in their power, send replies to individual inquiries relating to questions of poverty and destitution, their causes, prevention and relief, whether at home or abroad. Such inquiries should be addressed to the Secretary of the Ratan Tata Foundation, School of Economics, Clare Market, Kingsway, W.C. The Officers are also prepared to supervise the work of students wishing to engage in research in connection with problems of poverty. Courses of Lectures will also be given from time to time, which will be open to the Public.
M. E. Bulkley
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The Feeding of School Children
The Ratan Tata Foundation
PREFACE
CONTENTS
Introduction
(a)—Provision by Voluntary Agencies.
(b)—The Organisation of the Voluntary Agencies.
(c)—The Demand for State Provision.
(d)—Provision by the Guardians.
(e)—The Education (Provision of Meals) Act.
(a)—The Adoption of the Act.
(b)—Canteen Committees, their constitution and functions.
(c)—The Selection of the Children.
(d)—The Preparation and Service of the Meals.
(e)—The Provision of Meals during the Holidays.
(f)—The Provision for Paying Children and Recovery of the Cost.
(g)—Overlapping between the Poor Law and the Education Authorities.
(h)—The Provision of Meals at Day Industrial Schools and Special Schools.
(i)—The Underfed Child in Rural Schools.
Conclusions.
(a)—The Organisation of the Voluntary Agencies.
(b)—The Assumption of Responsibility by the County Council.
(c)—The Extent of the Provision.
(d)—The Care Committee.
(e)—The Provision for Paying Children.
(f)—The Service of the Meals.
(g)—Overlapping with the Poor Law Authority.
(1) Bradford
(2) Leeds
(3) West Ham.
(4) Acton.
(5) London.
(6) Grassington (Yorkshire)
(a) France
(b) Switzerland
(c) Italy
(d) Germany
(e) Austria
(f) Belgium
(g) Holland
(h) Denmark
(i) Norway
(j) Sweden
(k) United States of America
INDEX