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Grants, after authorisation by the rota member,
are normally for a period of four weeks calculated to
a Saturday, and are renewable, subject to further
application and approval by the Committee, every four
weeks. Grants take two forms : —
(a) Fresh milk—supplied by order on the nearest
milkman on the Council's list.
(b) Dried milk —supplied at the Welfare Centre,
Cornwall Road.
The necessary orders and cards of authority are
prepared in the Public Health Department on Thursday,
and are issued at the Centre on the following
morning. In the case of fresh milk, the official order
together with an invoice is handed to the mother to
take to the milkman, who subsequently furnishes his
account to the Council on the invoice, which must
contain the mother's signature for the milk. In the
case of dried milk, the authority to issue the specified
quantity is sent to the Centre on a card on which the
mother gives a receipt each week. Complete records
are kept in the Public Health office from weekly
returns furnished from the Centre, of the stocks and
issues of the various brands of dried milk supplied.
Mothers, in addition to milk grants, are also allowed
free any medicines which may be prescribed for them
or their children attending the Centre by one of the
Centre Medical Officers, and a card for this purpose is
also issued at the time the milk grant is made.
During the year the following quantities of milk
were issued to necessitous mothers :—
Fresh Milk 3,144 gals.
Dried Milk 21,417 lbs.
Condensed Milk 452 tins
together with drugs, &c. The approximate cost of
milk given in this way was £1,738.