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attending Public Elementary Schools, and on the 19th June,
1914, regulations were issued stating the factors that the
Board would take into consideration in distributing the
grant.
On the 7th August, 1914, the Education (Provision of
Meals) Act, 1914, was passed, extending the operation of
the original Act to the Feeding of School Children on days
other than school days, removing the limit of a ½d. rate
as the total expenditure to be incurred by a Local Education
Authority, and abolishing the necessity of obtaining the
sanction of the Board of Education to expenditure out of the
rates on the provision of food.
The Position in Willesden.
On the 18th November, 1914, a letter was received by
the Willesden Local Education Authority from the Board
of Education making certain criticisms of the arrangements
in operation in the Willesden area, and the Committee desire
to know how in my view these criticisms may be met, and
to what extent the School Medical Officer, or other officers,
should take part in the arrangements made for the Provision
of Meals. In considering this matter it is desirable that
the Committee should have before them the specific points
to which their attention has been directed. These are :—
(A) The points raised in the letter of the Board of Education
above referred to, and set out as follows:—
(1) There appears to be practically no co-ordination
with the School Medical Service, and no supervision
over either the dietary or the arrangements for
cooking and serving the meals. In this connection
I am to call the attention of the Authority to paragraph
309 of the Annual Report for 1910 of the
Board's Chief Medical Officer.