The Feeding of School Children

by M. E. Bulkley

[437]. London County Council, Report on the Home Circumstances of Necessitous Children in twelve selected schools, 1908, p. 25.

[438]. For menus, see Appendix [I].

[439]. Minutes of London County Council, December 20, 1910, p. 1491.

[440]. Frequently the infants are placed with the older children at the ordinary tables, which are too high for them to reach up to with any comfort; it is sometimes impossible for them to eat without spilling their food. (See the description of a feeding centre, post, p. [167].)

[441]. London County Council, Handbook containing general information with reference to Children's Care, 1912, p. 31.

[442]. The payment is 7s. 6d. a week. (Ibid., p. 34.)

[443]. Ibid., pp. 29-30.

[444]. Ibid., pp. 32-33.

[445]. These centres were all visited in the spring, summer or autumn of 1913. We describe some typical examples in the Appendix to this chapter.

[446]. In 1911, as the result of an inspection of all the feeding centres by the school doctors, it was reported that "in one-fifth ... the conditions required material improvement, to make the giving of these meals an educational function, and to impress the hygiene of proper eating and cleanliness on the children." (Annual Report of the London County Council for 1911, Vol. III., p. 170.)