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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Willesden 1915
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Willesden]
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Monday.—Boiled rabbit with rice and onion sauce. Currant
bread.
Tuesday.—Potato and onion soup with dried green peas,
bread. Currant or fig pudding.
Wednesday.—Cottage pie, green peas and gravy. Rice
mould and jam.
Thursday.—Irish stew, bread. Treacle tart.
Friday.—Cheese and lentil savoury, bean gravy, bread.
Ginger pudding baked.
Monday.—(as alternative.) Roast mutton, potatoes,
cabbage, gravy, bread. Currant bread and
margarine.
The following tables Nos. 65 and 66 show the total
number of meals supplied, and the average daily number of
individual children fed in each week of 1915, and corresponding
weeks of the two previous years, so far as figures are
available.