See, for instance, _Hansard_, December 6, 1906, 4th Series, Vol. 166, p. 1283; December 7, 1906, pp. 1340, 1344. See also _ibid._, July 9, 1903, Vol. 125, p. 196, and April 20, 1904, Vol. 133, p. 788. Footnote 307: Report on Working of the Education (Provision of Meals) Act up to March 31, 1909, p. 41. Footnote 308: _Ibid._, p. 42. Footnote 309: _Ibid._, p. 33. Footnote 310: The amount was L1,570 out of a total of L157,127. (Report of the Chief Medical Officer of the Board of Education for 1911, p. 332.) The smallness of the sums voluntarily contributed by the parents is largely due to the action of the Local Authorities. In the great majority of towns in England[311] no serious attempt has been made to establish "school restaurants"; the Local Education Authority, owing perhaps to lack of accommodation, perhaps to the difficulty of providing for a fluctuating number of children (a difficulty felt especially where the meals are supplied through a caterer), perhaps to the feeling that the provision of school meals as a matter of convenience would encourage the mothers to go out to work, has limited the provision to necessitous children. In 1911-12, out of 118 towns (apart from London) in which provision was made for underfed children, in only twenty-two were any of the meals paid for wholly by the parents. The number of children so paid for was in most cases negligible, the total amounting to only a few hundreds. And these figures include meals paid for under compulsion (though without prosecution) as well as meals voluntarily paid for as a matter of convenience.[312] Footnote 311: For provision made for paying children in Scottish towns, see Appendix II., pp. 242, 245, 246. Footnote 312: Report of the Chief Medical Officer of the Board of Education for 1911, pp. 325-7, 331. In eleven other towns the parents in some cases paid part of the cost.