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The feeding centres at Joseph Barrett School, at High Street
and at Higham Hill School were continued.

Supervision of Meals at Special Schools and Canteens.—
Your Committee resolved in March that the School Medical Officer
be asked to submit a report on the menus at present in use at the
various school and canteen centres. Visits were paid to each and
the menus in use were carefully considered, together with the menus
introduced by the two dietitians formerly in the Council's service.
Enquiries were also made from adjoining areas.
The following report was then presented to the Canteens
Committee:—
''Generally speaking, there appeared to be considerable variation
in the menus now being followed at the different centres in Walthamstow,
but the meals served to the children appeared to be well
cooked, adequate and appetising. There was very little residue.
"If a central kitchen is to be set up on the lines of the report
of the Director of Education dated December, 1936, one effect will
be that the same meal will be provided at all centres except at the
Nursery and Open-Air Schools. I am in entire agreemsnt with
this proposal and suggest that this end be anticipated by adopting
a standard menu as soon as possible.
"I beg to recommend as follows:—
"I. That a standard list of menus applicable to all centres be
adopted.
"2. That, if possible, the menus and general arrangements at
all feeding centres be supervised by routine visits, say quarterly,
to be paid by one of the Committee's teachers possessing the
necessary qualifications and experience."
Your Committee adopted new menus for summer months
and for winter months for use at all feeding centres, with the
exception of the Open-Air and Nursery Schools. It was also agreed
that the menus and general arrangements at all feeding centres be
supervised by routine visits by one of the Committee's Domestic
Subjects Teachers possessing the necessary qualifications and
experience.