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their durability the loan period for such buildings should
probably be shorter than for those of brick." (Report,
1912.)
I am,
Your obedient servant,
GEORGE F. BUCHAN,
Medical Officer.
APPENDIX J.
Provision of Meals.
Municipal Offices,
Dyne Road, Kilburn, N.W.,
23rd December, 1914.
To the Chairman and Members of the
Provision of Meals Special Sub-Committee.
Provision of Meals.
At the meeting of the Sub-Committee held on Monday,
the 14th December, 1914, I was instructed to report on the
above subject, and to formulate a scheme which, in view of
the grants-in-aid now to be made, would meet the requirements
of the Board of Education.
Historical Review.
In order that the Committee may be in a position to
place the Feeding of School Children on a sound basis, and
in proper relationship to the other activities of the Authority,
it may be well in the first instance to review the position
briefly from the historical aspect.
So far as records are available, it would appear that the
feeding of school children began during the last twenty
years of the nineteenth century, when funds were raised in
several of the large towns on a purely voluntary basis for