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Milk Marketing Board, with the approval of the Ministry of Agriculture,
has introduced a scheme for the supply of milk to school
children at a reduced rate.
Milk for School Children.
A daily ration of milk given to children, particularly to those
who are living on the borderline of undernourishment exerts a
beneficial action in their physical development.
In this connection, the scheme of the Milk Marketing Board
approved by the Ministry of Agriculture, is briefly referred to.
This scheme came into operation on October 1st, 1934, and
provides for a supply of milk to school children, at the reduced rate
of ½d. per third of a pint.
The amount of milk consumed at each school, or other approved
centre, is certified by the Head Teacher, or other person approved by
the Local Education Authority.
In the case of children found to be subnormal, more than one
third of a pint a day may be granted, and in necessitous cases
issue is made free.
The scheme further provides that at every school, the source
of supply of the milk, shall be approved by the School Medical
Officer, after consultation with the Medical Officer of Health of the
area in which the school is situated.
Subject to the above, the selection of the particular dairyman
is usually left to the Head Teachers of the respective schools.
The Board of Education desired that in areas where a supply of
efficiently pasteurised milk was available, such grade of milk should
in all cases be provided.
So far as this Borough is concerned, all milk delivered to the
schools under this scheme is supplied by purveyors licensed by this
Authority, under the Milk (Special Designations) Order, 1923, to sell
pasteurised milk, which must be in conformity with the prescribed
conditions, set out in the Order.
The milk is delivered to the schools in bottles, each containing
one-third of a pint, sealed with a cardboard disc, bearing the
words "pasteurised milk."
Administration
From October 1st to December 31st, seven samples of this
particular grade of milk were taken for bacteriological examination,
and a similar number of samples for chemical analysis. These
samples were taken in the course of delivery at the respective schools.
Some of these samples were taken from the same consignment of
bulk milk, which was delivered to eleven other schools, and therefore
formed an index to the quality of the milk being supplied to eighteen
schools in all.