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The Feeding of School Children

Chapter 4: PREFACE
By M. E. Bulkley
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A study of efforts to provide meals to schoolchildren, tracing the shift from voluntary charity to public provision, examining legislative and administrative arrangements, selection and service procedures, and the roles of local authorities and voluntary committees. It assesses the prevalence and causes of malnutrition, evaluates effects of feeding programs on children's health and family circumstances, and considers implications for policy. Regional case studies, practical menus, and comparisons with provision in other areas and countries illustrate successes, logistical challenges, and recommendations for more systematic, equitable feeding services.

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.