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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
St Pancras 1938
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Pancras, Metropolitan Borough]
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The distribution of pints of fresh milk and pounds of dried milk for the year is shown in the following figures.
| FREE. | HALF PRICE. | COST. | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Month. | Pints. | † Lbs. Dried Milk.) | Pints. | †Lbs. (Dried Milk.) | £ | s. | d. |
| *January | 8344 | 246 | 1484 | 90 | 164 | 8 | 0 |
| February | 7700 | 282 | 1652 | 78 | 157 | 19 | 3 |
| March | 6860 | 270 | 1624 | 48 | 134 | 10 | 11 |
| April | 6216 | 260 | 1568 | 50 | 124 | 0 | 0½ |
| *May | 8356 | 300 | 2072 | 126 | 146 | 12 | 7 |
| June | 6216 | 192 | 1120 | 48 | 101 | 7 | 0 |
| *July | 7756 | 288 | 1904 | 102 | 153 | 2 | 5½ |
| August | 6356 | 204 | 980 | 30 | 116 | 14 | 2½ |
| September | 6020 | 204 | 896 | 72 | 112 | 16 | 6 |
| *October | 9156 | 366 | 952 | 6 | 168 | 18 | 0½ |
| November | 8652 | 318 | 1288 | 30 | 161 | 4 | 8½ |
| December | 8328 | 246 | 2160 | 54 | 158 | 4 | 10½ |
| Total | 89960 | 3176 | 17700 | 734 | .£1699 | 18 | 7 |
* 5 week months.
† l¼ lbs. of (reconstituted) dried milk powder is equivalent to 7 pints of cow's milk.
In addition to the above, emergency grants, limited to a period of fourteen days, were
made in 377 cases, at a cost during the year of £60 14s. Od.
A deduction of 7½ per cent. is made from all accounts of dairymen supplying milk
under the scheme to the value of £2 or over monthly. This has reduced the total cost by
£66 6s. 3d., which should be deducted from the above figures.
Grants of cod liver oil or cod liver oil emulsion were made in 212 3ases at an approximate
cost of £9 14s. Od.
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.
The income scales, after deduction of rent (
| Number in Family. | (a) At end of 1938 (now superseded). | (b) Scale now in force. | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free. | Half-price. | Free. | Half-price. | |||||||||
| £ | s. | d. | £ | s. | d. | £ | s. | d. | £ | s. | d. | |
| One | 0 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 9 | 0 | 13 | 6 | 0 | 15 | 6 |
| Two | 0 | 18 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 19 | 6 | 1 | 5 | 0 |
| Three | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 0 |
| Four | 1 | 5 | 6 | I | 11 | 3 | 1 | 10 | 0 | 1 | 15 | 0 |
| Five | 1 | 10 | 0 | 1 | 16 | 6 | 1 | 15 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Six | 1 | 13 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 0 |
| Seven | 1 | 16 | 6 | 2 | 5 | 9 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 10 | 0 |
| Fight | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 10 | 0 | 2 | 15 | 0 |
| Nine | 2 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 15 | 0 | 2 | 15 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 |