[257]. Report of the Chief Medical Officer of the Board of Education for 1911, p. 272.
[258]. In many towns where meals are usually served at centres, local restaurants are utilised in outlying districts where the number of children is too small to allow of a centre being established.
[259]. At one school, the children have the meal in the school, the food being sent in by a caterer, the head-mistress preferring that arrangement.
[260]. In April, 1913.
[261]. Annual Report of the School Medical Officer for Stoke-on-Trent, 1912, p. 23.
[262]. This eating-house is situated in the poorest part of Acton, where the great majority of the children who are on the dinner-list live. In a few cases, where the children live in other districts, arrangements are made for them to obtain food at the cookery centres; this food they take home with them. This plan, we were told, is only adopted in cases where the mother can be trusted to see that the dinners are really eaten by the children for whom they are intended.
[263]. Some were sent to the depôts of the Food and Betterment Association.
[264]. Interim Report of the Special Committee appointed to investigate the Insufficient or Improper Feeding of School Children, Liverpool City Council Proceedings, 1907-8, Vol. II., pp. 5, 15.
[265]. Ibid., pp. 11, 12, 19.
[266]. Ibid., pp. 17, 22, 23, 24. In one case where five coupons were given daily to five members of a family, it was found that the children took the coupons home every day, and at the end of the week these coupons were presented and value obtained. (Ibid., p. 21.)