Massachusetts, 270 Meals, School, motives for provision of, 2, 4, 6, 8, 27; public provision of, 2, 3, 23-26, 27-49, 202-18, 249-70; a corollary of compulsory education, 9-11, 32, 33; cost of, 4_n_, 123_n_, 124_n_, 156_n_, 226-7; price of, 108, 109, 123_n_, 124, 125, 135, 156, 226, 245, 246, 253; expenditure on, 54-5; time of, 76-9, 128, 222, 253; number of, per day, 78-9, 159, 227, 228; number of, per week, 5, 16, 35, 36, 133, 157, 267, 268; continuance of, throughout the year, 6, 23, 35, 36, 50, 97, 106, 129, 133, 229, 239, 247-8, 263, 265; preparation and distribution of, 82-3, 128, 157, 229, 240, 244; service of, xv, xvi, 28-9, 45-6, 50, 83-101, 122, 126, 128, 156-63, 167-9, 199, 229, 241, 252; in Day Industrial Schools, 118-9; in Special Schools, 85, 100_n_, 121-2, 244; service of, by Poor Law Authorities, 43, 243; provision of, at home, 90_n_, 96-7, 141_n_; a form of relief, 61, 96, 127, 151, 219; a preventive measure, 219; provision of, deterrent, 220, 222; provision of, not universally known, 74; reasons for granting, 138, 210-11; necessity for, 138, 218, 219, 224, 228, 229; provision of, for all necessitous children, 220, 222, 223, 228; general provision of, without enquiry, 25, 126-7, 223-8, 229, 251, 258, 259-61, 264, 265, 266-7. See also _Centres_, _Children_, _Cookery Centres_, _Dietary_, _Holidays_, _Local Education Authorities_, _Parents_, _Payment_, _Poor Law Guardians_, _Rates_, _Restaurants_, _School_, _Supervision_, _Voluntary Agencies_, _Wages_ Medical Inspection, 10, 24, 54, 208, 221; in Brussels, 264; and Feeding, Inter-Departmental Committee on, 34-8, 44, 109_n_, 126_n_, 134_n_ Medical Officer of Health, 81 Medical Treatment, 65_n_, 139, 145, 203, 208, 227 Mental Capacity, relation of, to nutrition, 31, 179-83, 198 Mentally Defective. See _Special Schools_ Meyer, Lady, 201 Middlesex, 174-5 Milan, 259 Milk, provision of, 97, 144, 155, 159; effects of, 191-2 Monitors, 92, 94, 101, 121, 128, 161-2, 168, 169, 229, 241 Morten, Miss Honnor, 201 Mundella, Rt. Hon. A. J., 8_n_, 9, 10, 11, 12 Municipality. See _Local Education Authorities_ and _State_ Mutual Registration, 117, 152, 166 National Food Supply Association, 19 National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, 53, 58, 113 National Union of Teachers, 32 Nether Alderley, 125 Newcastle-on-Tyne, 102 Newman, Sir George, xii, 60, 63, 80_n_, 88, 170, 175, 183, 184, 221, 224, 227 Newport, 201 New York, 268-9 Nice, 256-7 Niven, Dr., xiii, 30 Northampton, 105, 186-7 Norway, 266-7 Norwich, 35_n_, 121_n_ Nottingham, 58_n_, 93_n_, 103 Open Air Schools, 57-8, 85, 120-1, 227 Outdoor Relief. See _Poor Law Guardians_ Over-pressure, 8-10. See also _Education_ Paisley, 246