The Feeding of School Children

by M. E. Bulkley

[547]. 8 Edward VII., c. 63, sec. 3 (2).

[548]. Ibid., sec. 6 (1).

[549]. Ibid., sec. 6 (2).

[550]. Ibid.

[551]. During the coal strike in the spring of 1912, some Boards in the Fife district took action under section 6 and provided free meals. (Report of the Chief Inspector for the Southern Division for 1912, p. 11.)

[552]. Report of the Committee of Council on Education in Scotland, 1912-13, p. 4.

[553]. For the following account I am mainly indebted to the kindness of Mrs. Leslie Mackenzie and Mr. I. H. Cunningham.

[554]. Report of Select Committee on Education (Provision of Meals) Bills (England and Scotland), 1906, Q. 4211; Report of Royal Commission on Physical Training (Scotland) 1903, Vol. II., Q. 2396.

[555]. Report of Special Sub-Committee on Meals for School Children, in Minutes of London School Board, July 25, 1889, Vol. 31, p. 382.

[556]. Edinburgh School Board, Memorandum on the Feeding of School Children, 1910, pp. 5-6.