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There were 99 sessions for dealing with applications
for milk grants, and parents made 18,131 attendances
at the Welfare Centre in connection with this
subject.
During the year the following quantities of milk
were issued to necessitous mothers:—
Grade A (Tuberculin Tested) Milk 10,451 galls.
Dried Milk 18,547 pkts.
Condensed Milk 245 tins
together with drugs, etc. The approximate cost of
milk given in this way was £2,769.
While it does not admit of statistical measurement,
there can be little doubt that the Council's provision of
milk for necessitous mothers and children has been
an important contributing factor to the improved
standard of child life in the borough. The milk
provides much needed increased resistance to the
debilitating effects of over-crowding, noise and dirt,
deficiency of sunlight and air, and the other concomitants
of poverty in a congested urban area. Its value in
better health far outweighs its modest cost in cash.
SUPPLY OP DRIED MILKS, Etc.
In connection with the work of the Council's
Centres dried milks of various brands, labelled specially
to the Council's directions to avoid the use of trade
names, are sold to the mothers :—
Dried Milk 15,842 pkts.
Condensed Milk 97 tins.
HYGIENIC CLOTHING.
Although restricted in scope by our limited
accommodation and staff, a good deal of useful work
is being done in the education of the mothers in the
use of more hygienic clothing for themselves and their
children, and there is a ready sale for good models of
garments at the Centres.