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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Barking 1937
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Barking]
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The Table on pages 148 and 149 summarises the arrangements which exist where
mid-day meals are taken at schools.
The following are specimen menus of the dinners supplied:—
| (1) Monday | Roast beef, butter beans, baked potatoes, macaroni pudding. |
| Tuesday | Liver and bacon, greens, potatoes, apples and custard. |
| Wednesday | Boiled beef, carrots, potatoes, tapioca pudding. |
| Thursday | Fried fish, greens, potatoes, baked fruit pudding and custard and a raw apple. |
| Friday | Roast beef, greens, potatoes, fruit salad and custard. |
| (2) Monday | Roast beef, greens, potatoes, tapioca pudding. |
| Tuesday | Fried fish, bread, greens, potatoes, baked sultana pudding. |
| Wednesday | Boiled beef, carrots, potatoes, macaroni pudding. |
| Thursday | Stewed rabbits, sprouts, dumplings, potatoes, apples and custard. |
| Friday | Liver and bacon, greens, potatoes, rice and prunes. |
It will be obvious that nutrition surveys as such are unnecessary in Barking.
I have previously mentioned that it would be necessary to employ greater medical
staff for such nutrition surveys, but nutrition surveys are less necessary than ever
since school medical inspection has tended to become more frequent.
(b) Milk.—In addition to free meals as such, free milk is given in certain cases
and in this way 55,969 bottles of milk were distributed during 1937.
The milk provided is subject, from time to time, to bacteriological and other
analysis, and during the year has been found invariably of standard quality.
In my Annual Report for 1934, I dealt with this subject from two or three aspects,
and find it unnecessary to add to what I wrote on that occasion.