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for growing children; (2) that cold milk taken slowly does not
chill the stomach; (3) that the milk supply of Hornsey as
delivered in bottles is a safe food.
I desire to acknowledge the great value of the extra work
willingly undertaken by the head teachers and their staffs in
supervising the daily milk distribution; the help rendered by the
Care Committees in regard to necessitous children; and the
invaluable service rendered by His Worship the Mayor in raising
a special milk fund to enable the Care Committees to see that
no child has to go without his daily milk in school because of
inability of his parents to pay for it.
Summary and Conclusions regarding Table III.
I have gone somewhat fully into the return of exceptional
children set out in Table III. at the end of this Report. Unless
the various categories of defective children who make up the
numbers in this return are clearly defined and thoroughly understood,
the table may be a very misleading one both to the
Education Authority and to the Board of Education.
I have also discussed the ways in which some classes of
defectives may be dealt with—more particularly the class of
physically defective children described as " delicate." The
special school as a means of dealing with this class has three
serious objections:—(1) It is limited in its scope by the number
of places provided in the special school; (2) its results are
obtained without the efforts or co-operation of the mothers;
(3) it involves a relatively heavy expenditure of public money.
On the other hand, a nutrition campaign is unlimited in
scope and should embrace not only every delicate or subnormal
child, but all children. It should aim at securing the intelligent
interest and co-operation of the parents, and more particularly
of the mother. Its main object is to secure a more effective
spending of private money on the family food budget rather than
the expenditure of public funds in the extension of social services.
18—NURSERY SCHOOLS.
There are no nursery schools in the Borough.