[247]. Report of Chief School Medical Officer for Sheffield, for the year 1910, pp. 26, 27. See post, p. [190].
[248]. "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. 25.
[249]. Board of Education, Code of Regulations for Public Elementary Schools in England, 1908, p. ii.
[250]. Report on the Working of the Education (Provision of Meals) Act up to March 31, 1909, prefatory note by L. A. Selby-Bigge, p. 6.
[251]. Report on the Working of the Education (Provision of Meals) Act for the year ended March 31, 1910, pp. 8, 9.
[252]. Report of the Chief Medical Officer of the Board of Education for 1911, pp. 278, 279.
[253]. We describe two or three of these schools later. (See post, pp. [121]-2.)
[254]. At Birmingham we note the same defect. "The children are quiet and well-behaved; but all the time is taken in serving the food, and there is no opportunity to teach individual children to eat slowly. The tendency, especially with the cocoa breakfast, is to gulp down the drink, eat part of the bread and jam, and carry the rest away." (The Public Feeding of Elementary School Children, by Phyllis D. Winder, 1913, p. 42.)
[255]. Report of Bootle School Canteen Committee, 1911-12, p. 10.
[256]. Ibid., p. 11.