Report on the Working of the Education (Provision of Meals) Act, up to March 31, 1909, pp. 12-13. Footnote 209: Report of the Chief Medical Officer of the Board of Education for 1911, p. 273. As a rule the primary selection is made by the teachers, either on their own initiative or on receiving requests from the parents. The School Nurse, the Attendance Officer or perhaps a member of the local Guild of Help may also recommend cases. Sometimes a personal application by the parent at the Education Offices or before the Canteen Committee is insisted on. Thus at Manchester the parents have to make application either at the Education Offices or at any of the district centres, of which there are twenty-four, situated in different parts of the town, and open at convenient hours. The teachers can advise children, whom they consider to be in need of food, to tell their parents to apply, but they take no further part in the selection of the children. At West Ham also the parents have to apply at the Public Hall or Education Office. The section of the Act dealing with repayment is read to the applicant, who then decides whether or not he wishes his children to be fed.[210] On the parent's signing a form (by which he agrees to repay the cost of meals when he gets into work[211]), tickets are issued for a week, pending enquiry. The parent is expected to send a note to the head teacher each day to say that he or she still wishes the child to be fed.[212] This personal application has to be renewed every month. The teachers are allowed to give urgency tickets for three meals, but if the parents fail to apply the meals have to be discontinued. At Erith "no breakfasts are supplied till the parents have registered at the Distress Committee (if eligible), or have made personal application there, or at the Education Office."[213] At Leicester, again, the parent has to make personal application at the office of the Canteen Committee, and this application has to be renewed every month. At Birmingham, except in special cases, the parent has to attend the meeting of the Committee; if he fails to appear, after being given a second chance, the child, who has meanwhile been temporarily receiving the meals, is removed from the feeding list.[214] Footnote 210: Report of West Ham Education Committee for the year ending March 31, 1910, p. 51. This is the procedure now in force. Footnote 211: See post, p. 110. Footnote 212: We were informed by the head teacher of an infants' department that she did not insist on a note being sent more than two or three times a week. Footnote 213: Report of Erith Education Committee for the three years ending March 31, 1911. Footnote 214: _The Public Feeding of Elementary School Children_, by Phyllis D. Winder, 1913, p. 27.