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At the majority of the schools the milk is delivered on
the premises; at others, it is customary for one of the
schoolboys—by arrangement with the head master—to
call at the shop and bring the milk with him as he comes to
school. In these cases I have had to make arrangements
with the head master to see the boy and follow him to the
shop, and take the sample as delivered to him by the
milkman.
Whilst at most of the schools the milk is delivered
cold, and warmed before giving it to the children, there
are others, viz., Pritchard's Road, St. John's, and Turin
Street where it is supplied warm. At St. Martin's Mission
it was supplied warm and sweetened with sugar.
The varying manner in which the arrangements are
made for the supply of milk makes it very difficult to
secure the samples as satisfactorily as could be desired,
and the information given was often misleading, and
added to the difficulties of the work.
There are three schools where, on the advice of Mr.
Foot, I did not take any samples, viz. :—
(1) St. Bartholomew's, where only a pint in a sealed
bottle is supplied by the Aylesbury Dairy Company.
(2) Rochelle Street, where also only a pint is sent for
as required, and
(3) Virginia Road, where only two or three children
have milk; in this instance the children go to a
coffee shop in Virginia Road for about half-a-pint
each. One of these children, I was told, paid