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The physiological value of the daily average is short by about
600 calories of the total daily requirements of the normal school
child of average age (10 years).
It is certain that to supply this physiological quantity, the
additional cost to the parent will not be more than Id. per child.
The meals supplied to the school children under the above
Act provide an opportunity for teaching them table manners. I
think there is in this respect, an improvement this year as compared
with last, but I do not feel satisfied that the most is being
made of this opportunity.
Number of dinners supplied—7,065 meals have been supplied
on 68 days during the year 1910, and assuming that children
were regularly fed, this means that 104 children were supplied
with meals. In this connection, I would draw attention to the
fact that the nutrition of 70 out of 1,110 children inspected
appeared to me to be below normal, and this by proportion
means that about 400 children attending the schools are chronically
underfed.
Sanitary Condition of Schools.
As instructed by Circular 596 of the Board of Education the
following reports were presented to the Education Committee by
the School Medical Officer on the above subject:—