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N.B.—The figures in brackets indicate the number of persons who received
both dried and fresh milk, and are therefore included in the number of
persons supplied in both columns.
In addition to the above, dinners to the number of 672 were
supplied during 1928 to necessitous expectant and nursing mothers
and children at a cost of £18 15s. 6d.
The Minister of Health in March addressed a letter to local
authorities administering the Maternity and Child Welfare Act
with regard to the need of economy in administering the distribution
of milk at reduced rates or free of charge, and reducing the
amount allowed in the annual estimates for this service by the
sum of £1,241. The Shoreditch Borough Council, to whom a
similar letter had been addressed, convened a Conference upon the
subject, which was attended by representatives of the Council.
The Conference passed resolutions requesting the Minister to
re-consider his attitude in the matter, and requesting him to receive
a deputation on the subject. Subsequently a deputation (upon
which the Council were represented) waited upon the Minister,
who, in his reply, stated that while Councils were perfectly free to
accept the suggestions contained in his letter as to how economies
might be effected, he could not withdraw his intimation as to the
reduced grants which would be given in view of the economies
which the Department, in common with other Government Departments,
had been called on to make.
Convalescent Homes.
During 1928, accommodation was provided for 29 mothers
and 29 children attending the various Maternity and Child Welfare
Clinics. Of these, 24 mothers and children were sent to St. Mary's
Convalescent Home, Birchington, and the remainder to the Burnett