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preparations used for the feeding of young children when the
natural mother's milk is not obtainable. It may be pointed out
that the Council of the Metropolitan Borough of Lambeth have
been memorialized by local medical practitioners and the staff of
large hospitals situated within the Borough, to take up this question,
and I understand that although the Local Government Board's
Auditor annually disallows the payments made by the Borough of
Battersea in this connection, yet the Borough of Lambeth are
proposing to go forward on the same lines.
"The Committee will doubtless remember that I have on one
or two occasions advocated the adoption of some such measure
to deal with this problem as it presents itself in the poorer parts of
this Borough, and would suggest in order to give a definite legal
sanction for this work that the London County Council be
approached with a view to their obtaining powers, in their next
General Powers Bill, authorizing the provision of Municipal Milk
Depots in suitable districts in Greenwich, also, if thought advisable,
in other Metropolitan Boroughs."
The result of this special consideration being that it was
decided to recommend the Council to ask the London County
Council to insert in their next General Powers Bill a clause
authorizing Greenwich to expend money upon the provision
of a Municipal Milk Depot; the recommendation was adopted by
the Council, and the request has been made to the London
County Council accordingly.
AN ANALYSIS OF DEATH CAUSES.
All death causes are conveniently arranged under various
headings, and the following table, a summary of the larger tables