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Scale of Income (after deduction of rent).
Number of
persons in
family.
FREE MILK.
ASSISTED (half-price) MILK.
Scale per head.
Scale per family.
Scale per head.
Scale per family.
s.
d.
£
s.
d.
s.
d.
£
s.
d.
l
13
0
0
13
0
15
0
0
15
0
2
10
6
1
1
0
12
6
1
5
0
3
8
6
1
5
6
10
0
1
10
0
4
7
6
1
10
0
8
6
1
14
0
5
7
0
1
15
0
8
0
2
0
0
6
6
6
1
19
0
7
6
2
5
0
7
6
6
2
5
6
7
6
2
12
6
8
6
6
2
12
0
7
6
3
0
0
9
6
6
2
18
6
7
6
3
7
6
10
6
6
3
5
0
7
6
3
15
0
11
6
6
3
11
6
7
6
4
2
6
12
6
6
3
18
0
7
6
4
10
0
The assistance given is one pint of milk daily, 2 lbs. Quaker oats
and ½1b. cocoa weekly to expectant or nursing mothers, and one pint of
milk daily to children up to three years of age.
Yoluntary Services.
All the activities permissible under the Maternity and Child
Welfare Act, 1918, not undertaken directly by the Borough Council
are undertaken by voluntary bodies. Details of these will be found in
the preceding pages and in Section 2 of this Report.
Endeavours are still being made to co-operate with the School
Medical service, by passing on the information obtained by the Health
Visitor, during the first five years of the child's life, to the School
Authority, on the child attaining school age. The framing of any
system, however, on those lines that would justify the work involved
has proved to be a difficult task, and little has been accomplished yet
in this direction.
"Light" Treatment
During 1925, the question of Helio-Therapy, or treatment of
Debilitation and Disease by Light, came under consideration by the
Council, and in accordance with the resolution of March 26th, 1925, I
made a Special Report thereon.
Before reporting, therefore, I visited various places, among others
Leysin, Montana and Geneva in Switzerland, and Alton in Hampshire,
for the purpose of observing the action of Light in the treatment of
disease; I also saw Light Treatment being carried out at certain
centres in London and at the Research Laboratory in London.