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National Milk Publicity Council by which school children are
supplied with one-third of a pint of milk each morning at the cost
of one-penny a day is in operation in the schools and it has been
arranged that children whose parents are unable to afford to pay
the amount and who are in need of milk shall receive milk at the
same time as the other children at the cost of the Education
Committee, under Sections 82-85 of the Education Act, 1921.
The milk-in-schools scheme is in operation in 37 out of the 41
school departments.
At the end of October an effort was made to increase the number
of children receiving milk and for this purpose 8,000 copies of a
leaflet issued by the National Milk Publicity Council were distributed
to children not having milk in school. At the end
of October, before the leaflets had been issued, the number of
children paying to have milk in school was 2,385, and one month
later this number had increased to 2,707. The benefit derived by
the children from receiving a regular supply of milk is so great
that every effort should be made to encourage the scheme.
The number of children supplied with milk under Sections
82-85 of the Education Act, 1921, during the year was as follows :—
Number of children for whom a supply of milk was
approved, 1st January, 1933 495
Number of children for whom a supply of milk was
approved, 31st December, 1933 537
Daily average number of children who received a supply
of milk 448
Total number of bottles of milk supplied 93,501
Cost of milk supplied £389. lis. 9d.
CO-OPERATION OF OTHERS IN THE SCHOOL
MEDICAL SERVICE.
Reference has been made in previous reports to the valuable
help received from the teachers and school attendance officers
in facilitating the work of school medical inspection and in encouraging
the treatment of defective children, and to the great assistance
rendered in after-care and treatment by certain voluntary bodies,
notably, the Central Aid Society, the National Society for the Prevention
of Cruelty to Children, the School Attendance Aid Committee
and the Middlesex King Edward Memorial Committee.