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75
THE SIXTH ANNUAL REPORT
for the
Year ending 31st December, 1920,
on the
PROVISION OF MEALS TO SCHOOL
CHILDREN AND TO MOTHERS AND
CHILDREN UNDER FIVE YEARS IN
WILLESDEN.
PROVISION OF MEALS—SCHOOL CHILDREN.
Feeding Centres.—Meals have been supplied at three Feeding Centres under the control of
the Education Committee.
At Furness Road Centre there is adequate accommodation for the number of children being
served. The children attending the physically defective school are served at 12 noon, the second
dinner being served at 12.30 p.m., thus allowing time for the arrival of children from more distant
schools.
At Gibbons Road Centre, owing to the large increase in numbers during the year, the rooms
have been more than comfortably crowded for the first dinner, and a relay dinner has been served
to the children, who, by reason of coming from a distance, arrive late. The seating arrangements
here are not very satisfactory, desks serving for tables, and the cooking stoves, coppers and sink
being closer to the children than is desirable. A large number of the applicants for free meals are
drawn from the Stonebridge area and it would be advisable in the near future to consider the establishment
of a feeding centre that would be more conveniently located for the district to be served, and
more suitably equipped for the service.
At Strode Road Feeding Centre during the early part of the year, the numbers dropped to
less than 50 children per day, but since the autumn this number has considerably increased. In
the table given below the number of individuals attending the Education Committee's Centres is
shewn, together with the number of meals supplied.