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Free milk is supplied when the total income of the family does not
exceed 5s. per head per week. When the total income of the family
exceeds 5s. per head per week, but does not reach the maximum limit
as stated above, a reduction in price is made of from 4d. per pint to
Id. per pint. In every case the head of the family is required to sign
a statement as to the wages earned weekly, before a grant of milk is made,
and this statement is, as far as possible, verified.
The amount of milk allowed in 1920, to be supplied under the orders
was as follows :—
For children under 18 months .. .. 1£ pints daily.
For children between 18 months and 5 years 1 pint daily.
For nursing and expectant mothers—the quantity prescribed
by the person certifying.
The current retail prices of milk in London in 1920 were as follows :
Per quart: January, 1s.; February and March, lid.; April, 10d.;
May to September, inclusive, 8d.; October and November, 10d.;
December, lid.
Deaths and Death-Rate.
There were 778 deaths of Chelsea residents in 1920, as compared
with 925 in 1919. The death-rate for the year was 11*3 per 1,000,
as against 14-1 in 1919, 17-6 in 1918, 14-2 in 1917, 15-1 in 1916, 17-5 in
1915, and 13-3 in 1914.
The lower death-rate in 1920, as compared with 1919 and 1918,
is due to a much lessened mortality from influenza, the deaths in 1920
from this disease being only 10, as against 104 in 1919, and 284 in 1918.
The deaths from pneumonia were practically the same (49), as in 1919
(50), but considerably less than in 1918, when they numbered 82.
In London the death-rate for 1920 was 12-4 per 1,000.