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(2) Not more than 1 pint per day per person should be
supplied, but in the case of infants between 3 and
18 months, in exceptional cases, 1½ pints per day
might be supplied.
(3) The milk should be given only where the Medical
Officer of Health (or, in certain cases, the Medical
Officer of a centre) is satisfied that the supply is
essential on grounds of health; and in the case of
children between 3 and 5 years of age, or where
more than 1 pint per day is supplied for infants
between 3 and 18 months, only upon a special
medical certificate.
(4) Milk to be given nursing mothers only when they are
actually suckling their children.
(5) A special Committee or Sub-Committee to be appointed
to deal with applications.
(6) A scale of income, to be first approved by the
Ministry, to be adopted for the purpose of determining
whether the applicants are generally
necessitous.
(7) Supplies not to be given for more than one month at
a time.
It was requested that within 3 weeks of the receipt of this
circular the local authority would submit a statement, showing
the total expenditure which it was estimated would be incurred
for milk during the following 6 months under the revised
conditions of supply laid down in the circular.
For the information of the local authorities, a suggested
scale of income for the supply of milk at less than cost price
was enclosed in the appendix to the circular.

Scale revitei February, 1922.