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School Dinners.—Some re-arrangements with regard
to the feeding centres have been made this winter ; the
children from St. Ignatius School now go to the Crowland
Road dining hall, and feed there after the Crowland Road
children have finished.
At the new School at Down Lane the children are fed
in their own departments.
I have again to report that the food provided is
excellent in quality and quantity; it is well cooked and
thoroughly appetising and nourishing. At some centres
two courses are provided, at others, suet dumplings served
along with stew and vegetables, or meat and suet puddings,
provide all that is requisite for a dinner dietary. Cocoa
and bread and jam are provided occasionally at the other
centres and are very popular with the children, being
probably the sort of food to which many are most
accustomed at home, but it cannot be considered so
suitable as the above mentioned dietary, and to educate the
palates of the children to take more suitable and nourishing
food is, I think, an important point in school feeding.
Sitting down to a properly devised and well served
meal has great value, I believe, not only from the dietetic,
but from the educational standpoint.
Records of the weights of the children being fed were
kept last winter at the Lancasterian, Page Green, and
Crowland Road centres. The weights were taken in
November, when the meals were started, and again at Easter,
when they were discontinued.