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THE FEEDING OF SCHOOL CHILDREN
The Ratan Tata Foundation
(University Of London)
THE FEEDING OF SCHOOL CHILDREN
by
MILDRED EMILY BULKLEY
With An Introductory Note By R. H. Tawney
Director of the Ratan Tata Foundation
London
G. Bell And Sons, Ltd.
1914
The Ratan Tata Foundation
_Honorary Director_: PROFESSOR L. T. Hobhouse, M.A., D.LIT. _Honorary
Secretary_: PROFESSOR E. J. Urwick, M.A. _Director_: MR. R. H. Tawney,
B.A. _Secretary_: MISS M. E. Bulkley, B.SC.
The Ratan Tata Foundation has been instituted in order to promote the
study and further the knowledge of methods of preventing and relieving
poverty and destitution. For the furtherance of this purpose the
Foundation conducts inquiries into wages and the cost of living, methods
of preventing and diminishing unemployment, measures affecting the
health and well-being of workers, public and private agencies for the
relief of destitution, and kindred matters. The results of its principal
researches will be published in pamphlet or book form; it will also
issue occasional notes on questions of the day under the heading of
"Memoranda on Problems of Poverty." In addition to these methods of
publishing information, the Officers of the Foundation will, as far as
is in their power, send replies to individual inquiries relating to
questions of poverty and destitution, their causes, prevention and
relief, whether at home or abroad. Such inquiries should be addressed to
the Secretary of the Ratan Tata Foundation, School of Economics, Clare
Market, Kingsway, W.C. The Officers are also prepared to supervise the
work of students wishing to engage in research in connection with
problems of poverty. Courses of Lectures will also be given from time to
time, which will be open to the Public.
Already Published.
"_Some Notes on the Incidence of Taxation on the Working-class Family._"
BY F. W. Kolthammer, M.A. 6d.
"_The Health and Physique of School Children._"
BY Arthur Greenwood, B.Sc. 1s.
"_Poverty as an Industrial Problem_": _an Inaugural Lecture_.
BY R. H. Tawney, B.A. 6d.
"_Studies in the Minimum Wage._"
No. 1. The Establishment of Minimum Rates in the Chain-making Industry
under the Trade Boards Act of 1909.
BY R. H. Tawney, B.A. 1s. 6d. net.
"_The Feeding of School Children._"
BY MISS M. E. Bulkley, B.A., B.Sc. 3s. 6d. net.
To Appear Shortly
"_Studies in the Minimum Wage._"
No. 2. The Establishment of Minimum Rates in the Tailoring Trade.
BY R. H. TAWNEY, B.A.
PREFACE
In the collection of the material on which the following pages are based
I have received assistance from so many persons that it is impossible to
thank them all individually. I gratefully acknowledge the unfailing
courtesy of officials of Local Education Authorities, School Medical
Officers, secretaries of Care Committees and many others, who have
always been most ready to supply me with information as to the working
of the Provision of Meals Act, and to show me the Feeding Centres. My
thanks are due especially to the students of the Social Science
Department of the School of Economics, who have assisted in collecting
and arranging the material, especially to Miss Ruth Giles, Miss A. L.
Hargrove, and Miss P. M. Bisgood, the first chapter being very largely
the work of Miss Giles; Mrs. Leslie Mackenzie, Mr. I. H. Cunningham,
Miss Cecil Young and Mrs. F. H. Spencer have also kindly collected local
information. I am greatly indebted to Mr. R. H. Tawney for much valuable
advice and co-operation, and to Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Webb and Dr. Kerr
for reading through the proofs. I should add that the enquiry was made
during the course of the year 1913 and the account of the provision made
refers to that date.
M. E. Bulkley.
CONTENTS
Preface vii
Introduction BY R. H. TAWNEY xi
Chapter I. The History of the Movement for the Provision of
School Meals 1
Provision by Voluntary Agencies--The Organisation of the
Voluntary Agencies--The demand for State
provision--Provision by the Guardians--The Education
(Provision of Meals) Act.