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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

Willesden 1938

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Willesden]

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Table: If these arrangements were adopted the Feeding Centres, seating capacities and numbers fed would be in accordance with the following table:—

If these arrangements were adopted the Feeding Centres, seating capacities and numbers fed would be in accordance with the following table:—

Seating Capacity.Approximate average No. fed daily at the Centre.Approximate average No. of meals sent out daily from the Centre.
Gibbons Road140149100 to O.R.P.D.
† Curzon Crescent200205
Furness Road809065 to L.M.D.
Strode Road100136
† Stonebridge200150
*Percy Road240375

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†
Proposed new Centre.
* In course of erection.
Meals Supplied.
All children on the feeding list are eligible to receive breakfast and dinner daily except on
Christmas Day. They also are eligible to receive one-third pint of milk on five days a week at school.

Table: The following table shows the number of meals supplied during 1937-38:—

The following table shows the number of meals supplied during 1937-38:—

BreakfastsDinners
Free.Free.Paying.Total.
Gibbons Road1,28342,83564744,765
Oldfield Road, P.D8,2869,46917,755
Furness Road1,29519,65579821,748
Leinster M.D.6,4825,82112,303
Strode Road1,08234,0161835,116
Lower Place2,17441,15120043,525
Carlton Vale School House4,6264,626
Granville Road Voluntary Centre26,39178,401104,792
Feeding Centre Assistants3,6254,0297,654
40,476234,85516,953292,284

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One-third pints of milk supplied free = 151,359.
Staff and Service.
The staff employed at the feeding centres is approximately one to every 50 fed. The children
are encouraged to come to meals clean and tidy, to say grace, and to behave at table in an orderly
manner.
Each table of 10-12 children has a table monitor selected by the Superintendent from the
children. The monitor fetches the food from the serving table and sees that each child has a nicely
served dinner.
Children placed on Feeding Lists—Review of Economic Circumstances.
Children are put on the feeding lists immediately on receipt of applications from parents,
school teachers, health nurses, medical officers or school attendance officers, subject to review by
investigation of the economic circumstances of the family.