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School Meals—1947.
Average number of pupils in attendance :—
Primary Schools
6,602
Secondary Schools
3,718
10,320
Average number of pupils taking meals daily :—
Primary
Secondary
(1) Free
138
178
(2) Payment
2,978
2,422
3,116
2,600
Total
5,716
Percentages.
Primary
Secondary
(1) of number taking
meals—-free
4%
6%
(2) of numbers in attendance
taking meals
47%
69%
Percentage of total numbers
taking meals
55%
Milk.
Number of pupils taking milk.
Primary
6,261
Secondary
3,038
Total
9,399
Percentages.
Primary
93%
Secondary
81%
Total
91%
Minor Ailment Clinics.
Successive Medical Officers working in these Clinics have
emphasised the fact that there is a need for these Clinics to be
re-named in view of the new functions which they have come
to exercise. It is pointed out that they have now become more
in the nature of consultative Clinics, important in that they give
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