[237]. Ibid., p. 11. This is the plan still pursued (see post, pp. [86]-87).
[238]. London County Council, Report of the Medical Officer (Education) to Sub-Committee on Underfed Children, 1909. See also "School Feeding," by Dr. John Lambert, in Medical Examination of Schools and Scholars, edited by T. N. Kelynack, M.D., 1910, pp. 240-242.
[239]. Report of the Education Committee of the London County Council, submitting report of the Medical Officer (Education) for the twenty-one months ending December 31, 1908, p. 17.
[240]. "The determination of the dietary of the children generally, and of individual children whose health or age renders it desirable that special arrangements should be made in their case" is, as the Chief Medical Officer of the Board of Education points out, a matter "on which the School Medical Officer is particularly competent to form an opinion, and on which, therefore, his opinion should be sought by the Authority." (Report of the Chief Medical Officer of the Board of Education for 1911, p. 275.)
[241]. Annual Report of the School Medical Officer for Stoke-on-Trent for 1911, p. 56.
[242]. See the descriptions of Stoke and Liverpool, post, pp. [89], [90]-91.
[243]. See Bradford Education Committee, Report on a Course of Meals given to Necessitous Children from April to July, 1907, p. 7.
[244]. For Bradford and some other typical menus see Appendix [I].]
[245]. "The Importance of a Well-Advised and Comprehensive Scheme in the Selection of Children ... under the Education (Provision of Meals) Act," by Victor J. Blake, in Rearing an Imperial Race, edited by C. E. Hecht, 1913, p. 24.
[246]. At one centre that we visited, the second helping consisted only of what was left by some of the children on their plates! Those who wanted more were asked to hold up their hands, and the food was then handed to them, the recipients being apparently selected at random, since there was not enough for all.