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(7) To supervise the quality, quantity, cooking and
vice of the food.
(8) To attempt to form a judgment as to the beneficial
results of feeding generally as well as in particular
cases.
Items Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4 and 8 above cannot be properly
undertaken except with a full knowledge of the social circumstances
of the children and enquiries into the home conditions
should therefore be made by officers acting under
the control of the School Medical Officer.
Work of this character is already done in the Medical
Officer's Department in connection with the Notification of
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Births Act, Infantile Mortality, the Provision of Spectacles,
the recent inquiry of the Board of Trade into the cost of
living, etc., and the co-relation of the additional enquiries
to be made iin connection with school meals is merely a detail
of administrative procedure.
Accommodation.—The work under this heading is practically
not carried out at the present time in Wiillesden.
I have already indicated that practically it runs side by
side with inquiries into non-attendance and. social circumstances.
It is largely statistical in character, and is of the
same nature as the statistical work of the Public Health
Department, with which it naturally falls into line.
The preparation of the "fair schedule" is the most
important item. This means keeping a record of each family
living in houses under £30 a year rental, shewing
Names of parents,
Names of children, with dates of birth,
Names of schools attending,
If not on roll of a school, the reason,
Previous convictions for non-attendance, if any.
The statistical information of the Public Health Department
in connection with Census taking and empty houses,