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THE TWENTY-FIRST ANNUAL REPORT
FOR THE
Year ending 31st December, 1935,
ON THE
PROVISION OF MEALS TO SCHOOL CHILDREN IN
WILLESDEN.
Feeding Centres.—Meals have been supplied at the four feeding centres under the control
of the Education Committee, namely :—Gibbons Road, Furness Road, Strode Road, and Lower Place,
and at one voluntary centre at Granville Road. Dinners are taken from Gibbons Road Feeding Centre
to Oldfield Road Physically Defective School, and from Furness Road Feeding Centre to Leinster
Mentally Defective School, College Road.
Dinners are served in the main hall at each school.
On February 3rd, 1934, the feeding of school children on seven days a week, instead of on five
days, was commenced in the four feeding centres controlled by the Education Committee.
Breakfasts.—The practice of serving breakfasts has been continued throughout the year
at Carlton Vale School House. On April 30th, 1934, breakfasts were commenced at all the Education
Committee's Centres, and also at the Granville Road Voluntary Centre.
The Corporation of Willesden decided to raise the economic scale Is. per head on April 1st, 1934,
and to allow all children in receipt of free dinners also to receive free breakfasts. The breakfasts
consist of cocoa made with milk, brown or white bread and vitamin margarine, with jam or marmalade,
or currant bread and vitamin margarine.
Staffing.—The staff employed at each of the Feeding Centres is approximately one assistant
to every 50 children fed.
Selection of Children.—Recommendations are accepted from School Teachers, Health
Nurses, and the Medical Staff, subject to review by investigation of the economic circumstances of
the family. The total number of new application forms presented to the Education Committee's
Centres throughout the year was 657.
Recommendations are no longer received from the Local Public Assistance Officers as the
arrangement made between the Public Assistance Committee, and the Willesden Education Authority
to pay Is. per head per week, or part of a week, for each child fed on their recommendation, ceased
to operate on 25th March, 1933.
Kilburn Feeding Centre Dinners.—The children of the South Kilburn area are fed at the
Voluntary Centre established at the Presbyterian Mission Hall, Granville Road.
Kilburn Breakfasts.—The provision of breakfasts at Carlton Vale School House has been
continued throughout the year, the arrangement being carried out by the caretaker.
Breakfasts have been given on six days a week instead of five days a week as heretofore, as
from 30th April, 1934.
Breakfasts have also been supplied at the Voluntary Centre, Granville Road, on five days a
week, as from 30th April, 1934. The price paid by the Local Authority to this Voluntary Centre is
3d. for each breakfast.
The number of application forms received from the South Kilburn area for the year was 297.
Meals.—A 15 day menu was commenced in all feeding centres on 2nd April, 1934.
This provides two meatless dinners, two cheese, one lish, one roast and one boiled meat, two
Mews, two pie or pudding, and two minced meat dinners, each being followed by a pudding, or stewed
fruit and custard. The price per meal charged by the Local Authority to non-necessitous cases is 5d.