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Appendix B.
Extract from the Minutes of the Council,
24th June, 1937.
Nutrition : Ministry of Health Circular No. 1519-
We have received the following report from the Medical Officer
of Health, which we submit for the information of the Council:—
Report.
The circular refers to the recently issued First Repbrt of the Advisory
Committee on nutrition, and requests the Council to take an early opportunity
of reviewing its arrangements under section 251 (1) of the Public Health
(London) Act, 1936.

There are, however, frequent cases of hardship in which free milk is
required, and in which it cannot be supplied, but which would be covered
if the scale were raised to that ruling in Bermondsey, Bethnal Green and
Shoreditch, which is as follows.-
Borough
No. in
family
Scale
Free
Half cost
Bermondsey
1
s.
d.
s.
d.
Rent deducted, also
contributions for
state insurances
for health, unemployment
and pensions;
and voluntary
contributions
for hospital treatment.
14
0
16
0
Bethnal Green
2
12
0
14
0
Shoreditch
3
10
0
12
0
4
9
0
10
0
5
8
0
9
0
6
and over
7
0
8
0
It may be noted that suggestions have been received from medical officers
of the welfare centres that the scale should be raised on account of these
cases of hardship.