[178]. Report of the Scarborough Amicable Society for 1910, pp. 5, 8.
[179]. "Feeding the Children," by H. Beswick, in the Clarion, October 11, 1912.
[180]. First Annual Report of the Leicester Children's Aid Association, 1907-8, p. 3.
[181]. For a description of the methods adopted, see post, pp. [96]-7. A somewhat similar system is in force at Chesterfield, where the arrangements for feeding are made by the Civic Guild, the expense being borne out of their funds. The Education Committee is represented on the General Council and Executive Committee of the Guild in a general sense, not in connection with feeding alone. Cases of children requiring food are reported by the Attendance Officers, and are fed at once by the Guild, investigation being made afterwards. If help is found necessary the whole family is adequately relieved. Arrangements are usually made for the children to be fed at eating-houses. The number of children so dealt with is very small.
[182]. Hansard, April 23, 1909, 5th Series, Vol. 3, p. 1797.
[183]. Education (Administrative Provisions) Bill, December 8, 1908; February 19, 1909; April 14, 1910; February 19, 1912; April 15, 1913.
[184]. Report of the Chief Medical Officer of the Board of Education for 1911, pp. 320-322, 329.
[185]. The most important of these are Leicester, Sunderland, and Barnsley.
[186]. See Report on the Working of the Education (Provision of Meals) Act up to March 31, 1909, p. 30, and (for London) p. 24; ditto for the year ended March 31, 1910, p. 20; Report of the Chief Medical Officer of the Board of Education for 1910, p. 309; ditto for 1911, p. 332. The voluntary contributions are understated in the figures for 1908-9, and possibly throughout. The returns for 1908-9, for instance, do not include Liverpool, where the whole cost was defrayed by voluntary contributions, and no financial details were supplied to the Board.
The discrepancy in the total for 1911-12 is due to the fact that the figures in the several columns are not given exactly, but to the nearest £.