History of school meals in Great Britain

This paper describes the early origins of the school meals service, their rapid growth in the second world war, their post war development and their recent retrenchment. The factors contributing to their early success and the problems to be overcome are discussed.     

The History of the Statutory Control of Mercury Poisoning in Great Britain

`Notification is only useful as the prelude to inquiry and recommendations, and without such development, is nothing more than a cog in the wheel of statistics which resolves annually but gets nowhere.' Sir Frank Tillyard (1948)