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require time and greater advertisement to develop. At
the end of the year there were 4 Home Helps on
the panel, and they had been engaged by 14 mothera(,
in 12 cases the mother paying a contribution for the
services rendered.
MATERNITY OUTFITS.
As foreshadowed in last year's annual report, the
Council has arranged, with the sanction of the Ministry
of Health, to provide a sterile accouchement outfit for
the use of expectant mothers. The scheme was only
in operation during part of the year, and has not yet
become generally known in the borough. Outfits were
issued as follows:—Free 45; Half-price 13; Cost price
14; Total 72.
PROVISION OF MILK FOR NECESSITOUS
MOTHERS AND CHILDREN.
Milk is given in the following cases: —
(a) Expectant mothers during the last three
months of pregnancy.
(b) Nursing mothers.
(c) Children up to three years, also in exceptional
cases children between three and five years
of age.
The quantity of milk authorised does not exceed
one pint per day except in the case of children between
3 months and 18 months where a 'special medical
certificate is furnished, and in which case as much as
If pints per day may be authorised. In April, 1928,
specially packed cartons of dried milk, containing the
uniform equivalent of 7 pints of fluid milk, were substituted
for the previous 1 - lb. packets, which were
equivalent to various quantities (according to brand),
less than 7 pints.
A full account of the procedure in dealing with
applications for milk grants was given in the annual
report for 1924.