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Title: Review of reviews and world's work
Year: 1890 (1890s)
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Publisher: New York Review of Reviews Corp
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
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s 37per cent. ; in 1888 it was 43 per cent. In 1902 it hadgrown to 56 per cent., and in 1898 to 63 per cent., thusexactly reversing the proportion at starting, when freemeals were one-third of the whole, whereas now theyweie two- thirds. Meanwhile, the total number of mealswas growing with alarming rapidity. In 1886 they hadbeen, in round numbers, 4,660,000, and in 1888 .5,640,000.In 1893 the total had risen to 6,970,000, and in 1898 to9,230,000; that is, they had doubled in twelve years.The municipal subvention rose at a corresponding ratefrom 480,000 francs in 1880 to 600,000 in 1890, and to 1,017,-000 in 1899. To sum up the financial position in a few round fig-ures : The cantines cost, on an average during thelast five years, a little l^nder 1,400,000 francs, and theydistributed rather over 10,000,000 meals, costing, on anaverage, 13 centimes each. Of these, two-thirds werefree and oTie-third paid for. To meet this expenditureof nearly 1,400,000 francs, they received 1,000,000 (or
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THE LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL AND ITS EDUCATION POLICY.—FEEDIXG THE CHILDREN. (This picture shows how the question of feeding school children, which has just been raised in Parliament, has beentackled at Cable Street School, Whitechapel. The London County Council has utilized fifteen of its two hundredcookery centers for the preparation and distribution of meals to children. At Cable Street School only one penny(two cents) a head is charged.) 734 THE AMERICAN MONTHLY REI^IEIV OF REyiEWS. £40,000) from the Municipal Council, 360,000 from pay-ments for meals, and about 25,000 (or £1,000) from thevoluntaiy funds held by the Caisses. The increase is almost entirely in the freemeals. Taking Mr. Blairs estimate that 150,000children need to-day, in London, to be fed onevery school day througliout the year at a costof 2^d. (.5 cents) per meal, involving an expendi-ture of over £.^,000 ($15,000), the writer asks.Will it stop there ? The knowledge that the cost comes out of the rateswill enorm

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