[227]. The Public Feeding of Elementary School Children, by Phyllis D. Winder, 1913, p. 29.
[228]. Report of the School Medical Officer for Leicester for 1912, p. 36.
[229]. See note on page [205], infra.
[230]. Thus it was found at a school in Bethnal Green that, "in spite of the supervision of a most efficient Care Committee," the change from a porridge breakfast to a meat pie dinner doubled the number of children attending. ("The Feeding of Necessitous Children. A Symposium. I., Experience in S. W. Bethnal Green," by A. W. Chute, in Oxford House Magazine, January, 1909, p. 37.)
[231]. At West Ham, for instance, where all the children on the feeding list receive both breakfast and dinner, the number of breakfasts given during the year 1911-12 was 247,233, and the number of dinners 273,894; the attendance at breakfast was thus only ninety per cent. of the attendance at dinner. (Report of the West Ham Education Committee for the year ended March 31, 1912, pp. 175-77.)
[233]. Bradford Education Committee, Report on a Course of Meals given to Necessitous Children from April to July, 1907, p. 7.
[234]. Report of the Chief Medical Officer of the Board of Education for 1911, pp. 322-324.
[235]. Roughly about half the children fed receive both meals (Bradford Education Committee, Return as to the Working of the Education (Provision of Meals) Act, for the year ended March 31, 1913.)
[236]. Enquiries made by the head teachers showed that in the aggregate 295 children received no mid-day meal or an insufficient meal. Since, presumably, these enquiries were made by the method of questioning the children, no particular value can be attached to the actual figures; the school attendance officers enquired into fifty-four of the cases taken at random and found that all but two showed undoubted poverty in the home. (Report of Bootle School Canteen Committee, 1910-11, pp. 10-11.)