Soup dinners for school children : a reprint, with additions.

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[1905]
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    oup ^inncr0 for (School Chilbrcn (A REPRINT, WITH ADDITIONS.) Second Edition, with Postscript, bringing down the report to December, 1905. The subject of Dinners for School Children was first noticed in Parliament by Mr. Mundella, Vice-President of the Committee of Privy Council on Education, when introducing the Education Estimates for England and Wales, on 26th July, 1883. The examples cited were the dinners given at the Jews’ Eree School, Spittalfields, and at a school of Sir Henry Peek’s, at Kousdon, Devonshire. When the Education Estimates for Scotland were brought forward, a few weeks later, the writer took occasion to describe to the House what had been done for some years past in the same direction, but on a somewhat different system, at the School of Earnell, in Forfarshire, where a soup dinner had been provided during the winter months for such of the scholars as chose to pay for it. At the request of Sir Henry Peek, he afterwards gave some fuller information on the subject, in a letter dated Stracathro, Brechin, 1st September, 1883. The letter was in these terms:— “ I have much pleasure in responding to your request for some information as to the dinner wdiich is given during the winter months in the school of Farnell, in this neighbourhood. “ Let me state that Farnell is a small country parish, with an area of about six square miles, and a population of about 600. There is no village in it, and the population is pretty equally distributed over