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"3. The provision by the Education Committee in very
generous measure of convalescent home treatment for
children following debilitating illnesses. This in my opinion
is the best means of preventing a state of mild ill health
from developing into a condition which may become severe
and disabling.
"4. The provision of mid-day dinners for those children
whose parents are unemployed.
"5. The satisfactory extent to which parents avail themselves
of relief measures in cases where they are entitled to
these.
"6. The provision of an annual two weeks' holiday at the
school camps, for children who could not otherwise get a
holiday.
"Food, exercise, fresh air and rest are the chief factors
governing growth and health, and in our Borough all these
are obtainable in generous measure for the school child if
the parent is willing to take advantage of the provision made.
"The facts that 355,104 milk meals were consumed by the
children in the schools, that 758 children had free dinners,
that on an average 309 children are sent to convalescent
homes yearly, and that 381 children had a fortnight's holiday
at the school camps prove, I think, that the parents are
appreciative of the services provided for the welfare of their
children, and avail themselves of them, and I consider that it
is because of this that we have a good standard of nutrition
in our area."

Nutritional Surveys.—Following the receipt of Circular
1443 issued in December, 1935, by the Board of Education,
your Committee decided that nutritional surveys should be
carried out twice a year at the conclusion of medical inspection
in each Department.