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I have already reported to the Committee that the Health
Visitors' time is far too urgently needed on their districts to be
taken up with clerical work of this description, or, in fact, with
any of the clerical work connected with the administration of
the Centres.

The number of applicants in distressing circumstances other
than those classified as above was 611.
A number of applications for relief to the Mayor's Distress
Fund were made by families containing young children and infants,
and visits were made by the Health Visitors, to do anything possible
in the direction of preventing injury to the health of the
infants and young children and to consider the question of the
supply of milk to them. These applications thus referred
numbered 3,311.
In every case dealt with, every form of assistance was taken
into account, including, of course, that given by the Guardians.
Milk supplied free of cost to necessitous cases involved the Council
in an expenditure of £3,677 3s. 6d.