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Blind and Myope Centre.—Concentrated food of high value
needed and especially more milk and eggs.
Open Air School.—Consistent punctuality not yet achieved.
Kitchen-dining room service not yet quite satisfactory.
Higham Hill School.—Some plates scarcely touched—children
arrived late. (Reasons later found to be individual and
conditions satisfactory.)
(2) Milk Meals.—Milk was supplied on medical grounds to
3,257 children on the recommendation of the medical staff after
the examination of children either at school or clinics, the total
number of meals being 741,121. The number of children supplied
during the preceding year was 1,794, and the number of meals
355,104.
Children presenting evidence of subnormal nutrition are given
milk meals provisionally, on the recommendation of the Head
Teachers, pending medical examination.
Such children receiving "free" milk are seen at the medical
inspections and re-inspections each year, the findings are recorded
on a special card, and a decision made as to the extension of the
milk meals.
(3) Milk in Schools Scheme.—The arrangements detailed in
the 1934 Report were continued in 1936, insistence being continued
as to all the milk supplied being pasteurised milk sold under licence.
A table is published below summarising the reports of Head
Teachers as to milk consumed in schools in March and October,
1936, and as required by the Board of Education.
The summary shows the percentage at each school receiving
milk on the two dates, including absentees who usually receive
milk:—