In Stockholm several voluntary organisations were formed for supplying meals, the provision being usually limited to necessitous children. In order to preserve the self-respect of the children and parents, some of these societies adopted the plan of allowing the children to contribute to the expense of the dinner by performing some manual work, the making of baskets (which were sold), the mending of clothes, the sweeping out of the rooms, etc.[640] Towards the close of the nineteenth century the School Boards of the several parishes resolved to build kitchens at the schools. The kitchens generally contained several fireplaces, at each of which dinners for a certain number of children were prepared by the elder girls.[641] Each child only received a dinner three times a week. Footnote 640: "Prize Essays on Feeding School Children," 1890, pp. 71-75. Footnote 641: London School Board, Report on Underfed Children attending School, 1899, pp. 270-271. At Joenkoeping the free distribution of meals dates from 1887. The funds, which were derived from voluntary contributions and proceeds of concerts, were administered by the Board School Inspector, and the distribution of the food was supervised by the School Board. The children were usually sent for dinner to the houses of private ladies who undertook the catering.[642] The poorest children were fed twice a week, those who were rather less poor only once. Footnote 642: _Ibid._, p. 270. At Gothenburg, besides the provision made by voluntary agencies, the Board of Education distributed bread to certain children who were selected by the School Board.[643] Footnote 643: _Ibid._, p. 269. (k) United States of America In America[644] the movement for the feeding of school children is of comparatively recent date. It is true that in the numerous Day Industrial Schools which were instituted in the nineteenth century by voluntary organisations, _e.g._, by the Children's Aid Society, meals were always given,[645] but it was not till 1904, when Mr. Robert Hunter in his "Poverty" stated that probably 60,000 or 70,000 children in New York City often arrived at school hungry and unfitted to do their school work well,[646] that public attention was seriously directed to the question of under-feeding among school children. Footnote 644: See for a full description of the provision made in America, _School Feeding_, by Louise S. Bryant, 1913. Footnote 645: "Prize Essays on Feeding School Children," 1890, pp. 225-35. Footnote 646: _Poverty_, by Robert Hunter, 1904, p. 216.