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2. Cases occurring between meetings to be fed on the unanimous
decision of Head Teachers and School Attendance Officers—until
the next meeting, when they will be investigated.
3. If a parent does not attend the investigation meeting, and it is
found that the non-attendance was due to illness, or other unavoidable
cause, continue to feed, if the Head Teachers and School
Attendance Officers are agreed, until the next meeting, when the
parent will be called up again.
4. If the parents are undeserving, but the children apparently need
food, supply it, if the School Doctor pronounces a child underfed,
and Head Teachers and School Attendance Officers agree; report
the case to the Central Committee.
5. If a child receiving tickets is found to be verminous, suspend the
issue of tickets at once, and report the case to the Central Committee.
6. Without making a definite standard, meals shall not as a rule be
provided if after paying rent and fares there is remaining
12/- for a family of 4 persons.
14/2 „ „ 5 „
16/3 „ „ 6 „
18/1 ,, „ 7 „
19/7 „ „ 8 „
21/- „ „ 9 „
22/- „ „ 10
7. If the parents do not apply, and the School Doctor pronounces a
child to be underfed, the parents are to be informed that the child
apparently needs food, and asked to make application for meals.
If the parents refuse to apply, report the case at once to the
Central Committee. If application is made, feed the children and
invite the parents to the next investigation meeting.
Dinners were served at St. James' Hall, in Upper Edmonton, from January
26th to May 8th, and at St. Michael's Hall from January 19th to June 26th.
During the early part of January and (after the closing of the two centres)
until the end of July, necessitous school children were fed at cook shops.
Circular 856 of the Board of Education, dated 15th August, 1914, related to
important alterations. Whereas under the 1906 Act, the amount spent out of