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investigation has been made) sterilisation, but they 

 have no doubt that all milk on leaving the cow 

 should be promptly refrigerated to a temperature 

 of 40 Fahrenheit. 1 The Committee have a de- 

 pressing section in which they refer to parental 

 ignorance and neglect, ranging from bad feeding 

 and neglect of sleep to the pernicious practice of 

 giving infants india-rubber nipples to suck, and 

 they proceed to plead for the full use of the powers 

 given to Local Authorities by the Midwives' Act of 

 1902, and to urge the extension of health societies 

 on the lines of the Manchester and Salford Ladies' 

 Public Health Society, whose " health visitors" 

 have done so much sanitary and educational work 

 in those towns. 



FEEDING OF SCHOOL CHILDREN 



On the questions of the Medical Inspection and 

 the Feeding of School Children fresh light has been 

 shed by the Report, dated November 9, 1905, of 

 the Inter-Departmental Committee appointed in 

 the previous March to ascertain what is at present 

 being done. So far as concerns Medical Inspec- 

 tion we have already dealt with this Report. The 

 feeding of school children remains, and the ques- 

 tion is still the centre of heated controversy. It 

 must be remembered that an enormous majority 

 of the children attending elementary schools are 

 sufficiently, though often improperly, fed. Most 

 of them, too, live near their homes, and it would 



1 Report, p. 55. 

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