[Report 1926] / School Medical Officer of Health, Cumberland County Council.
- Cumberland County Council
- Date:
- 1926
Licence: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Credit: [Report 1926] / School Medical Officer of Health, Cumberland County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![XT.—PROVISION OF MEALS. Meals were provided at canteens opened in the following centres:— Aspatria Brigham Broughton ]\loor Crosby Dearham Flimby Frizington Great Broughton Greysouthen Harrington Little Clifton Lowca Maryport Oughterside Plumbland Seaton I'he total number of meals supplied in the year ended 31st December, 1926, was 408,268. The average cost per meal was under 2jd. The number of children receiving meals varied from 356 to 1,345. There were also some voluntary canteens open in certain areas. On this subject Dr. Towers reports as follows :— On your instructions I visited and reported on a large number of school canteens during the year, and reported individually on the features of each. In connection with the feeding of school children, it may not be out of place to mention here that in spite of industrial depression on an unprecedented scale, I have never found elementary school children so fit and well as they have been during the past twelve months. One has so frequently been asked by members of the public ; ‘ How are the school children feeling this depression ? ” : “Is there much distress? ” etc., that one feels that a very emphatic and definite reply is called for. In m}^ opinion the children have not felt the depression, physically they have never been so well. I personally have seen no dis- stress among them, and 1 have been watching for it. 1 think there can be no doubt that the feeding they have had at canteens has been so much above the feeding they usually get at home, as regards food value, that for the children at least the depression has been a blessing in disguise.”](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29132368_0030.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
