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St Pancras 1931

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Pancras, Metropolitan Borough]

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Table:

1931.FREE.HALF-PRICE.TOTAL COST.
Month.Pints. Fresh Milk.Lbs. Dried Milk.Pints. Fresh Milk.Lbs. Dried Milk.£s.d.
*January8204330125690158176
February6300270117260124176
March7280280109225138180
*April806437014283514102
May562824511484597196
June6524245106450110140
*July9380285106455149125
August722421588870116511
September7616230112070123186
*October610425588440104146
November386424542030721110
December4004160392157550
80192313011928585.£14141410

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* 5 week month.
The Council passed a resolution in July, 1928, that 7½ per cent, be deducted from the
accounts of all dairymen supplying milk under the scheme to the value of £2 or over monthly.
This has reduced the above total by over £50.
The scale in use in making the grants is based on weekly income and was originally
drawn up by the Council in 1922. It was discontinued in April, 1928, and a new scale
brought into use in consequence of a recommendation by the Minister of Health that the
scale should be brought into accord with the fall in the index figure of the cost of living.

Table: The present revised income scale is shown hereunder:—

The present revised income scale is shown hereunder:—

Number in Family.After Deduction of Rent.
Free.Half-price.
£8.d.£s.d.
One01200139
Two0183130
Three120176
Four1561113
Five11001166
Six1130213
Seven1166259
Eight2002103

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Families in receipt of less income than that indicated in the table would be entitled to
receive milk. Where any doubt exists as to the true circumstances of the family, enquiries
are made by the Health "Visitors attached to the various Welfare Centres,