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4. Invalids—using 1,313 pint bottles of milk mixture ;
5. Nursing mothers—using 496 pint bottles of milk
ture ;
6. Children over 2 years of age—using 3,929 pint bottles of
milk mixture.
A total of 8,737½ gallons of milk and 726½ pints of cream were
used during 1915.
Weekly medical consultations with mothers were held at the
Dep6t, the babies being weighed, the weights and other details
tabulated in the Register, whilst the babies were visited also at
their homes by the Health Visitor when required.
Milk was distributed not only from the Depot, but also from
the Moffatt Institute (Upper Kennington Lane), the latter branch
dep6t (distributing centre) being used for the convenience of the
mothers living in the Vauxhall District.
The most conclusive proof of the value of a Milk Depot, in
so far as the infants and children fed are concerned, is to be found
in the medical histories of individual cases, which show again and
again, in the case of the Depot, that those infants and children
who appear to be seriously ill and wasting, if not moribund, as
the result of improper or irregular feeding, at the time of commencing
the milk, actually recover and become strong and healthy.
The educational value, too, of a Milk Depot must not be
lost sight of.
BAKEHOUSES.
There are, within the Borough, 214* Bakehouses (135 above
ground and 79 underground), and these were inspected officially
during 1915, and the necessary annual white-washing and cleaning
carried out, as required.

* 72 were certified during 1903—4 as " suitable " for occupation as underground
bakehouses under section 101 Factory and Workshop Act, 1901.