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12
PROVISION OF MEALS.
During the year 111 ,369 school meals (dinners) were provided.
Necessitous children only, with the exception mentioned below, were
provided with meals and no charge was made. The income of the parents
must be within the scale fixed.
The dietaries at the various Cookery and Feeding Centres are
submitted to, and approved by, the School Medical Officer who periodically
visits the Centre.
Dinners are provided for payment at the Down Lane Central Girls'
School, but part payment is accepted in cases where the parents are in poor
circumstances.
The following are the menus of the meals supplied at the Down Lane
and Lancasterian Centres:—
Down Lane Centre.
Monday. Boiled mutton, pearl barley and potatoes.
Jam tart.
Tuesday. Minced meat, baked potatoes and green peas.
Rice pudding.
Wednesday. Shepherd's pie and butter beans.
Currant pudding.
Thursday. Meat pudding, green peas and potatoes.
Tapioca pudding.
Friday. Leg of beef stew, dumplings and potatoes.
Apple tart.
Lancasterian Centre.
Monday. Meat, potatoes and plain pudding.
Tuesday. Hashed beef, potatoes and butter beans.