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Council; mother not expectant within the prescribed period of
three months ; child over five years of age. The grants comprised
milk, 29,466 pints, dinners 6,393, and dried milk 1,111 pounds.
The majority of grants were free of cost to the applicant. In
some cases the applicants paid half the cost of the grant.
The net cost to the Council for the grants of milk, dinners and
dried milk was £676 18s. 2d. The Ministry of Health refunds
one-half of the approved net expenditure in this connection.
Of the 355 families who received grants, 96 were in receipt of
unemployment benefit ; 93 were in receipt of poor-law relief; 238
of the applicants were Ex-Service men. 26 of the fathers were
stated to be " chronic out-of-works " In 42 cases " large families "
were reported, that is, families with six or more children. 63 of
the applicants were regularly employed and 259 irregularly
employed. 5 applicants were in the employ (casual) of the Finsbury
Borough Council. Grants were made in respect of 14 illegitimate
children. In 9 cases the man and wife were living apart. 6 widows
applied for, and received, grants.
Of the total 355 families dealt with, 173 lived in one-roomed
tenements, 153 lived in two-roomed tenements, and 29 in threeroomed
tenements. The rents for unfurnished rooms were as
follows : —For one room from 2s. 6d. to 7s. weekly. For two rooms
from 3s. to 10s. 6d. weekly. For three rooms from 7s. 0d. to 12s. 6d.
weekly. The rents for furnished rooms were :—For one room from
12s. to 14s. weekly. For two rooms from 14s. to 16s. weekly.
For three rooms from 14s. to £1 weekly.
Hospital Treatment. —The Borough Council renewed their
agreement with the governing body of the Infants' Hospital,
Vincent Square, Westminster, S.W.I, from 1st October, 1925, for
the retention of three cots for use when required for the reception and
treatment of ailing Finsbury children up to the age of 5 years.
The Borough Council pays £75 per annum retaining fee, and £2 per
week per cot when occupied by cases sent in under the agreement.
The new agreement terminates on the 1st October, 1928. The cots
have been occupied in 1927 by 22 ailing babies.