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Arrangements by which the children were fed from a speciallyorganised
centre could only be performed at greatly-increased
expense. A point for consideration would be the arrangements
of a scheme by which dinners were provided at cheap rates for
those children where mal-nutrition appears the result of improper
or unsuitable feeding, as, for instance, where the mothers go out
to work and the children are given coppers to buy food at the
middle of the day.
Dinners are provided throughout the school holidays in
necessitous cases.
Following on the consent of the Board of Education, the
School Nurse carried out the treatment of certain minor ailments
in the schools.
During the year 1911, 895 visits were paid and 126 children
were treated. The distribution of these cases and the diseases
treated were as follows:—