[387]. Report of the Select Committee on the Education (Provision of Meals) Bills, 1906, Qs. 451, 500, evidence of Mr. A. J. Shepheard.
[388]. Ibid., Q. 327.
[389]. The tables were "nicely laid and with tablecloths, with all the ordinary appliances and requirements of a table put there, such as salt cellars, knives and forks, and everything of that kind. The tables were laid out with flowers ... I think I may quite certainly say that some of these children had never sat down to a meal of that description in their lives." (Ibid., Q. 331.)
[390]. Minutes of the London County Council, December 19, 1905, p. 2138. About eighty per cent. of the meals were paid for by the parents, the remaining twenty per cent. being paid for by friends or voluntary agencies. (Report of the Select Committee on the Education (Provision of Meals) Bills, 1906, Q. 326.)
[391]. When, in 1904, the London School Board was superseded by the London County Council, the Joint Committee on Underfed Children had been continued by the latter body, its constitution remaining practically unaltered. (London County Council, Report of Education Committee, 1908-9, Part II., p. 3.)
[392]. This Sub-Committee was known at first as the Sub-Committee on Underfed Children. In December, 1908, the name was altered to the Children's Care (Central) Sub-Committee. (Ibid., p. 4.)
[393]. See Minutes of the London County Council, November 24, 1908, p. 1120.
[394]. "State Feeding of School Children in London," by Sir Charles Elliott, in Nineteenth Century, May, 1909, p. 866.
[395]. London County Council, Report of the Education Committee for 1908-9, Part II., p. 4.
[396]. The local Relief Committees had been re-organised under the name of Children's Care Committees in July, 1907. (Ibid.)