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3. Invalids—using 2,446 pint bottles of milk mixture ;
4. Nursing mothers—using 769 pint bottles of milk
ture ;
5. Children over 2 years of age—using 8,538 pint bottles of
milk mixture.
A total of 12,015| gallons of milk and 571 pints of cream were
used during 1917.
Weekly medical consultations* with mothers were held at the
Depfit, 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 Visitors when required.
Milk was distributed not only from the Depot, but also from
the Moffatt Institute (Upper Kennington Lane), the latter branch
depdt (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.
DEATHS, 1917.
The total number of deaths registered is 5,374. The deaths of
all members of the armed forces of this or other countries are excluded
and not only the deaths of those dying in Institutions as
indicated in various tables throughout the body of the Report and
in the special tables I. and III. of the Local Government Board (vide
Appendix.
All death rates for 1917 are calculated upon civil populations
(estimates).
*In connection with the Infants consultations at the Milk Depot, the
Local Government Board has again given a financial grant in aid for the
year 1917-18.