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PROVISION OF MEALS.
Free meals and milk were provided as usual in Acton until
the evacuation scheme was put into operation. The meals were
dispensed from 7 feeding centres, and free milk was supplied at all
the schools. In accordance with previous policy, meals and milk
were provided during school holidays, and attendances were
sufficiently good to make the continuance of the scheme worth while.
Free meals and milk were granted as formerly after an
examination by the School Medical Officers had shown the children
to be medically in need of them. Menus were supervised,
and suggestions for dishes containing important protective food
substances were given by the School Medical Officers.
Numbers of meals provided and bottles of milk supplied are
much diminished owing to the schools being shut from September
until mid November, and then being reopened with lower numbers.
Meals supplied at the different centres.
West Acton 690
Beaumont Park 3,627
Central 2,508
John Perryn 3,672
Priory 3,017
Southfield 404
Avenue Road 15,092
29,010
Meals supplied during the quarter ending:—
March 11,604
June 11,284
August 6,122
29,010