[187]. Report of the Chief Medical Officer of the Board of Education for 1911, pp. 322-24, 330.
[188]. This does not include children fed at Day Industrial Schools, Open Air Schools or, with one or two exceptions, Special Schools for Mentally or Physically Defective Children.
[189]. This number represents the average attendance at the ordinary Elementary Schools, not the total number on the rolls. (Statistics of Public Education in England and Wales, 1911-12, Part I., pp. 27, 333.)
[190]. In 1908-9, by £1,645; in 1909-10, by £2,370; in 1910-11, by £1,163, and in 1911-12, by £374. (Report on the Working of the Education (Provision of Meals) Act up to March 31, 1909, p. 26; Report of the Chief Medical Officer of the Board of Education for 1910, p. 304; ditto for 1911, p. 317.)
[191]. Hansard, April 23, 1909, 5th Series, Vol. 3, pp. 1862-1863. A similar complaint was received from Hartlepool. (Ibid.)
[192]. See Minutes of Kingston-on-Hull Provision of Meals Sub-Committee, March 24, 1911, Appendix, p. 16. The abortive Bills introduced in 1908 and the following years by Labour members contained a clause that the limitation of the rate should be abolished.
[193]. "School Feeding," by Wm. Leach, in the Crusade, November, 1911 (Vol. 2, p. 192).
[194]. For a fuller account of the arrangements made for providing food at the Day Industrial Schools and the Special Schools see post, pp. [117]-122.
[195]. Elementary Education (Defective and Epileptic Children) Act, 1899 (62 and 63 Vict., c. 32, sec. 1 (1)).
[196]. As at Birkenhead, Bradford, Liverpool, Manchester, Nottingham, Stoke, West Ham.