[497]. We have, unfortunately, not been able to obtain a copy of the figures on which Dr. Haden Guest's report is based.
[498]. In the case of the boys, their weights, during this week, only increased a little; those of the girls remained stationary.
[499]. Report of Chief School Medical Officer for Sheffield for 1910, pp. 26-27. We may quote here striking results observed in the improved physique of the children at a special school for cripple children in London consequent on an improved dietary. A two-course dinner of meat, potatoes and pudding had been previously given, but in the summer of 1901 it was decided to provide a more liberal and varied dietary, e.g., more hot meat, eggs, milk, cream, vegetables and fruit. The results were soon apparent. "Partially paralysed children," writes Mrs. Humphry Ward a few months after the change, "have been recovering strength in hands and limbs with greater rapidity than before. A child who, last year, often could not walk at all from rickets and extreme delicacy and seemed to be fading away, and who in May was still languid and feeble, is now racing about in the garden on his crutches; a boy who last year could only crawl on his hands and feet is now rapidly and steadily learning to walk, and so on.... Hardly any child now wants to lie down during school time, whereas applications to lie down used to be common, and the children both learn and remember better." (Letter from Mrs. Humphry Ward, The Times, September 26, 1901.)
[500]. Brighton Education Committee, Report on the re-examination of children receiving free meals during the winter session, 1912-13.
[501]. Annual Report of London County Council for 1910, Vol. III., p. 130.
[502]. MS. Report by Dr. L. Haden Guest on Lambeth School Children Feeding Experiment, 1908.
[503]. Report of School Medical Officer for Macclesfield for 1911, p. 18.
[504]. Ibid. for Workington for 1911, p. viii.
[505]. Ibid. for Hastings for 1911, p. 14.
[506]. Report of School Medical Officer for Newcastle-on-Tyne for 1910, p. 49.