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THE TWENTY-THIRD ANNUAL REPORT
for the
Year ending 31st December, 1937,
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. A new
feeding centre with seating accommodation for 140 was opened at Gibbons Road on July 26th, 1937.
On 3rd February, 1934, the feeding of school children on seven days a week instead of on five days a
week, 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 30th April, 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 of 1s. per head on 1st April,
1934, and to allow all children in receipt of free dinners to receive free breakfasts.
The breakfasts consist of cocoa made with milk, brown or white bread and butter with jam or
marmalade or currant bread and butter.
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 application forms presented to the Education Committee Centres throughout the
year was 760.
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.—Breakfasts have also been supplied at the Voluntary Centre, Granville
Road, on five days a week, as from 30th April, 1934.
The number of application forms received from the South Kilburn area for the year was 341.
Meals.—A 15-day menu was commenced in all feeding centres on 2nd April, 1934.
This provides two soup dinners, two cheese, one fish, one roast and one boiled meat, two stews,
three pie or pudding, and three minced meat dinners, each being followed by a pudding or stewed fruit
and custard. Fresh fruit is provided once each week.
The price charged per meal by the Local Authority to non-necessitous cases is 5d.
Milk.—The provision of 1/3 pint of milk to all children who are receiving free meals was commenced
on 24th May, 1937. The children drink the milk at school during the mid-morning recess.