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4.—Contributions to Maternity Hospitals providing Midwifery
Assistance to Necessitous Mothers.
The Council has agreed to contribute towards the general
expenses of the City of London Maternity Hospital and the
Salvation Army Mothers' Hospital the sum of one guinea in respect
of each necessitous case admitted from the Borough for treatment
at either of these institutions. A necessitous case being considered
a patient who by reason of poverty or other causes is unable to
pav, for the treatment received, an amount equal to one-ha'f the
average cost per patient of the maintenance and administration
charges for the year ended December 31st, 1918.

5.—Provision of Milk and other Foods to Necessitous Mothers and
Children.
Milk (Mothers and Children) Order, 1919.
Local Authorities Milk (Mothers and Children) Order, 1919.
The two Orders re-enacted the Milk (Mothers and Children)
Order, 1918, and the Local Authorities (Food Control) Order (No. 1),
1918, with the following modifications:—
(1) The Orders relate to milk only and not to food. (Powers
with regard to food will be found in M.C.W. 4 under the
Maternity and Child Welfare Act.)
(2) The power of the Local Government Board to require local
authorities to make arrangements for the supply of milk is
omitted.
(3) Local authorities are empowered to supply milk free, or at
less than cost price, not merely in necessitous cases, but also