[38]. 31 and 32 Vict. c. 122, sec. 37.
[39]. House of Lords Select Committee on Poor Law Relief, 1888, Qs. 5857, 5858.
[40]. By an Act of 1876, the Local Education Authority might establish Day Industrial Schools at which one or more meals were provided, towards the cost of which the parents should contribute. (39 and 40 Vict., c. 79, sec. 16.) Very few such schools were established. (See post, p. 119.)
[41]. The Committee represented the Self-Supporting Penny Dinner Council, the Board School Children's Free Dinner Fund, the South London Schools Dinner Fund, Free Breakfasts and Dinners for the Poor Board School and other Children of Southwark (the Referee Fund) and the Poor Children's Aid Association.
[42]. The Times, November 16, 1887.
[43]. Report of Special Sub-Committee on Meals for School Children, in Minutes of London School Board, July 25, 1889, p. 373.
[44]. Ibid.
[45]. Ibid., p. 372.
[46]. Ibid., p. 377.
[47]. Seven members of the School Board were placed on the Executive Committee as a kind of informal representation, but in 1899 this number had dwindled to three. (London School Board, Report of General Purposes Committee on Underfed Children, 1899, pp. v.-vi.) There was "no direct touch" between the two bodies, "except the accidental circumstance that Members of the Board might be on the Committee" of the Association. (Ibid., p. 6, evidence of Mr. T. A. Spalding.)