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At the end of 1920 there were 729 families in receipt of milk through the Council's scheme.
842 new families were added to the list of recipients during 1921, and at the end of 1921 there
were 472 families in receipt of milk. As will be seen from the table above, there were supplied
in 1921, 162,079 pints of milk free and 79,037 pints at half-price, at a cost to the Council of
£4,001 4s. 4d., half of which sum is repayable. by the Ministry of Health. This figure does not
include the cost of administration.
The Council have continued to make an annual grant of £50 to the voluntary committee
of the Kentish Town Dining Room for Mothers. This organisation supplies meals for necessitous
mothers and young children from the neighbouring maternity and child welfare centres at the
National Kitchen, Prince of Wales Road. The Council have placed a room at the committee's
disposal for this purpose, and the National Kitchens Committee have charged 9d. a head for
dinners consisting of meat, two vegetables and pudding for the mothers, and 3d. a head for
lighter meals for children under school age. The price for the mothers' dinners has since been
reduced to 7½d. (from 20th February, 1922). The mothers are charged 3d. for their dinners and
1d. for the children's dinners, the rest of the cost being met by the voluntary committee. In
many cases of necessity, the whole or part of the mothers' contributions have been found from
the voluntary funds of the welfare centre recommending them for dinners. The dining room
has been open every weekday and Bank holiday since 8th March, 1921, and from that date
until the end of February, 1922, 5,806 dinners to mothers and 1,066 dinners to children under
school age have been served.
Meals for mothers and children are also supplied by the St. Pancras School for Mothers
(see page 20), and for ailing mothers and children, amongst other sick persons, by the Invalid
Kitchen, Seymour Street.
Particulars will be found on page 68 as to the feeding of school children by the London
County Council.
Home for Ailing Children under School Age.—A grant of £500 per annum is made
by the Council in aid of the Mayoress of St. Pancras Home for Sick Poor Children, 1, St. Alban's
Road, N.W.5, which has accommodation for 18 ailing children.
In 1921, 81 children were admitted. There were no children in the home at the beginning
of the year and at the end of the year there were 16 children in residence. The admissions are
classified for age as follows:—
0 to 1 7 3 to 4 14
1 to 2 28 4 to 5 10
2 to 3 21 5 1