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4. Invalids —using 2,234 pint bottles of milk mixture ;
5. Nursing mothers —using 43 pint bottles of milk mixture
;
6. Children over 2 years of age —using 9,408 pint bottles of
milk mixture.
A total of 11,149 gallons of milk and 769½ pints of cream were
used during 1916.
Weekly medical consultations* with mothers were held at the
Depot, the babies being weighed, the weights and other details
tabulated in the Register, whilst the babies were visited also at
their homes by the Health Visitors when required.
Milk was distributed not only from the Depot, but also from
the MofEatt Institute (Upper Kennington Lane), the latter branch
depot (distributing centre) being used for the convenience of the
mothers living in the Vauxhall District.
The most conclusive proof of the value of a Milk Depot, in
so far as the infants and children fed are concerned, is to be found
in the medical histories of individual cases, which show again and
again, in the case of the Depot, that those infants and children
who appear to be seriously ill and wasting, if not moribund, as
the result of improper or irregular feeding, at the time of commencing
the milk, actually recover and become strong and healthy.
The educational value, too, of a Milk Depot must not be
lost sight of.
"In connection with the Infants consultations at the Milk Depot, the
Local Government Board has given a grant during 1916.
BAKEHOUSES, 1916.
There are, within the Borough, 214* Bakehouses (135 above
ground and 79 underground), and these were inspected officially
and the necessary annual white-washing and cleaning carried out,
as required.
DAIRIES, MILKSHOPS AND MILK STORES, 1916.
14 applications for registration were received and dealt with
by the Council as follow: —
1. — Applicants not registered, the premises being "unsuitable"
(i.e., not in accordance with the Council's requirements) —†
2. — Applicants registered, the premises being "suitable" (i.e., in
accordance with the Council's requirements — 13.†
3. — Registrations withdrawn —nil.
* 72 were certified during 1903-1904 as "suitable" for occupation as
underground bakehouses under Section 101, Factory and Workshop Act.
1901.
† Unsuitable. —173, Coldharbour Lane (afterwards made suitable).
+ Suitable.— 37, Belvedere Road ; 66, Bolton Street ; 86, Brandon Road;
173, Coldharbour Lane; 30, Cornwall Road (Brixton Hill); 115, Dorset
Road; 18, Fitzalan Street; 2, Kennington Grove; 1, Howley Place; 11,
Oakley Street; 3A, Roupell Street; 112A, Wands worth Road; and 9, Wyvil
Road.
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