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remarked before, it is a waste of public money to
supply wet milk to houses where it is impossible
to keep it in a reasonable state of purity. Every
house into which dried milk is received from the
Borough Council is visited by a Health Visitor,
who sees to it that full information is given as to
the necessity for the addition of fresh fruit juice
to the diet with this form of feeding.
The Borough Council supplies a full-cream or
humanised dried milk prepared by the spray
method and similar preparations dried by the
roller process. It is found that where one type
of milk does not suit a child, almost invariably
the other form will agree with its digestion. The
digestibility of dried milk is considerably greater
than that of wet milk, and this is an important
point in a household where money to pay for
remedies for indigestion simply does not exist.
Recent research on anaemia has proved conclusively
that a large proportion of the population
of Great Britain is suffering from anaemia of one
form or another; and as we find that the Fulham
babies and mothers are no exception to this rule,
we keep stocks of a dried milk with which iron
in a digestible form has been incorporated. This
is found very useful for mothers during pregnancy
and lactation.
Maternal Mortality.
The investigations called for by a special
memorandum of the Ministry of Health in October
1928, requiring careful enquiry into the causes of
death in all cases in which women have died
during pregnancy, at childbirth, or in the puerperium,
are conducted by me, as they are intimately
connected with the work of the Maternity and
Child Welfare Department.