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50.

Supply of Milk under the provisions of the
Maternity and Child Welfare Act, 1918.
Under the provisions of the Maternity and Child
Welfare Act, 1918, considerable quantities of milk, for
the most part dried milk, are supplied free or at less
than cost price to necessitous nursing and expectant
mothers and to children under three years of age.
During 1930 such grants were made in 333 cases, a
very large increase over the numbers for the previous
year.
The Local Authority is required by the Regulations
of the Ministrv of Health to ascertain that need actually
exists, and a special Visitor visits in the homes of
applicants and reports on the home circumstances,
while the ordinary reports of the Health Visitors are
also available for reference. A special Milk Sub-Committee
of the Maternity and Child Welfare Committee
meets every week to consider these reports

The comparative expenditure under this heading
during recent years has been:—