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Total amount
Cost of Milk distributed of Milk
Years. Total Cost. distributed in
(Financial). Through Through gallons
Welfare Centres. Milk Depot.* (approximately)*
1918-19 232 15 3 69 4 3 301 19 6 3,151
(3 months)
1919-20 2,780 0 10 557 10 1 3,337 10 11 34,827
1920-21 13,836 7 3 1,564 7 3 15,400 14 6 160,703
1921-22 4,596 8 5 1,172 0 8 5,768 9 1 60,192
1922-23 3,553 15 4 1,064 19 5 4,618 14 9 48,196
1923-24 3,380 15 11 353 15 3 3,734 11 2 38,969
1924-25 2,977 19 8 137 17 7 3,115 17 3 31,543
1925-26 2,161 6 3 105 12 8 2,266 18 11 32,846
1926-27 2,209 6 1 189 4 4 2,398 10 5 32,012
1927 1,487 8 11 125 16 5 1,613 5 4 21,933
(9 months)
Totals £37,216 3 11 £5,340 7 11 £42,556 11 10 464,302
gallons.
Municipal Milk depot and Infants Consultations Centre.
(Municipal Milk Depot, inaugurated by the Council, 1903.)
Record of Work carried out during 1927.
82 new infants and children were entered upon the Register and
fed, their ages being at the time of commencing the milk:—
Under 3 months 30 9-12 months 9
3-6 months 17 Over 12 months and
6-9 months 16 under 2 years 10
Total 82
Of the 30 infants under 3 months, 6 were aged 14 days or
under.
These 82 infants and children (under 2 years) may be classified,
as to their states of health at the time of being put upon the milk, as
follows:—Healthy, i.e., showing no signs of wasting or disease,
though often below par constitutionally, 60; weakly, 14; wasting,
5; diseased, 3. The diseases from which the 3 infants and children
were actually, or had recently been, suffering at the time of being
* N.B.—See also the figures for the Milk Depot, dealing with milk supplied
to all cases (necessitous and non-necessitous), representing for the 9 years
1918-1927 a net expenditure of £2,288 19s. 6d. (total expenditure
£14,116 15s. 9d. less receipts from mothers of £11,827 16s. 3d.).