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(2) The accommodation is inadequate, the premises in
two cases (Salvation Army Centre and Lower Place
Centre) being- most unsuitable, owing to the unsatisfactory
kitchen accommodation. Alternative
premises should be found in these two cases, and
I am to suggest that it might be possible to make
further use of the Laundry Centres, without interference
unduly with the instruction at those Centres.
(3) Greater attention should be paid to securing food of
good quality and sufficient quantity, to cooking it
in an economical and palatable way, and to serving
it in a more orderly manner.
(4) Better arrangements are needed in connection with
the investigation of the cases selected for feeding.
(B) Paragraph 309 of the Annual Report for 1910 of the
Board's Chief Medical Officer setting out the function
and duties of the School Medical Officer as follows:—
(1) He should report to the Local Education Authority
all cases of bad or insufficient nutrition observed
in the course of medical inspection (whether routine
inspection or special inspection). Such cases
should be put on the feeding-list, pending investigation
as to the cause of malnutrition, unless, of
course, it is already obvious that the malnutrition
is due to conditions in which the Local Education
Authority's meals will be of no use.
(2) Cases of doubt as to the propriety of keeping any
child (whether selected as a result of medical in
spection or otherwise) on the feeding list should be
referred to him for report before the decision is
taken.
(3) Cases of the temporary exclusion from the feeding-
list of children who are temporarily excluded on
medical grounds from school attendance should be
notified to him.