The care committee, the child and the parent : a small volume containing the history of the provision of meals to the children of poor parents; and an account of children's care committees, their work and organisation, with particular reference to the place of the voluntary worker and the duties of an official / by Douglas Pepler.

  • Pepler, H. D. C. (Hilary Douglas Clarke), 1878-1951.
Date:
1914
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Credit: The care committee, the child and the parent : a small volume containing the history of the provision of meals to the children of poor parents; and an account of children's care committees, their work and organisation, with particular reference to the place of the voluntary worker and the duties of an official / by Douglas Pepler. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    find “Three or more of the scholars appointed by the Schoolmaster shall stand before the table in the middle of Hall, one of whom . . . shall begin to say Grace and consecrate the table, and all the rest then present shall say the responses together.” Manners are provided for under the London County Council. The notice following is hung in the Council dining centres:— LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL. Education (Provision of Meals) Act, 1906. Rules to be Observed in Connection with the Manage- ment of Dining Centres. (i.) Boys and girls should be selected, preferably by the head teachers, to act as monitors to assist in the laying of the tables and the serving of the meals, and, if necessary, in the clearing of the tables. They should be appointed in the proportion of one to every twenty children. The monitors should have their meals after the other children have all been served. (ii.) The food should not, as a rule, be served before the children enter the centre. (iii.) As far as possible the food should be served in such proportions and in such a manner as to suit the ages and requirements of the children. (iv.) Grace should be said or sung before and after the meal. (v.) Where two courses are allowed, the second should not be supplied until the first has been eaten. Clean plates must be used for each course. (vi.) Supervisors of dining centres are to refer cases of bad behaviour, etc., to the secretary of the