The Feeding of School Children

by M. E. Bulkley

[557]. Two special officers have been appointed to make enquiries.

[558]. There is no fixed scale in determining which children are necessitous, but free meals are usually granted if the gross income of the household is less than 3s. a head.

[559]. For the week ending December 19, 1913, the number of children fed was:—

Necessitous 442

Paying children 1,389

Parish Council children 207

[560]. Evidence before the Royal Commission on the Poor Laws, 1909, Vol. VI., Qs. 61553-5.

[561]. Ibid., Q. 61371 (12).

[562]. Ibid., Q. 55247 (31).

[563]. Report of the Royal Commission on the Poor Laws, 1909, 8vo edition, Vol. III., p. 148.