[207]. Report of School Medical Officer for Lancaster for 1911, p. 26.

[208]. Report on the Working of the Education (Provision of Meals) Act, up to March 31, 1909, pp. 12-13.

[209]. Report of the Chief Medical Officer of the Board of Education for 1911, p. 273.

[210]. Report of West Ham Education Committee for the year ending March 31, 1910, p. 51. This is the procedure now in force.

[211]. See post, p. [110].

[212]. We were informed by the head teacher of an infants' department that she did not insist on a note being sent more than two or three times a week.

[213]. Report of Erith Education Committee for the three years ending March 31, 1911.

[214]. The Public Feeding of Elementary School Children, by Phyllis D. Winder, 1913, p. 27.

[215]. See post, pp. [145] et seq.

[216]. Report of the Chief Medical Officer of the Board of Education for 1910, pp. 107-8; ditto for 1911, pp. 104-5. In several of the few towns where Care Committees have been appointed, they take no part in the work of feeding the children, their functions being confined to the "following up" of medical cases and perhaps the finding of employment for the children when they leave school.