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milk should take the place of ordinary mother's milk, but should
be only used to take the place of cow's milk or other artificial
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, authorising the provision of Municipal Milk
Depots in suitable districts in Greenwich, also, if thought advisable,
in other Metropolitan Boroughs.
In reference to vaccination or isolation, it was pointed out
that if they did not have vaccination, they had to fall back on the
second line of defence by trying to isolate every case of Small-pox
as it arose. It was shewn that, in Germany, where there is
regular systematic vaccination and re-vaccination, there were no
Small-pox Hospitals provided, and that the cost of re-vaccination
at school age would compare very favourably with the cost of