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In calculating the net family income for the purposes
of this scale, there should be deducted from the
gross income, payments made in respect of rent and
contributions for State insurances of health, unemployment
and pensions and voluntary contributions for
hospital treatment.
There were 99 sessions for dealing with applications
for milk grants, and parents made 14,020 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 7,620 galls.
Dried Milk 15,387 pkts.
Condensed Milk 49 tins
together with medicines, etc. The approximate cost of
milk given in this way was £2,226.
One could, of course, present some dramatic photographs
of the "before" and "after" type to show the
value of the Council's work in making these milk
grants. Equally facile would it be to show that
in a few instances, the Council's intentions have been
thwarted by the lack of good faith on the part of some
parents. The commonsense fact remains that in the
vast majority of cases the gift of milk to a necessitous
mother or child is of obvious benefit in building up
under-nourished or unsuitably-nourished bodies and in
strengthening the capacity to resist the evil effects of
overcrowding, shortage of sunshine and fiesh air,
presence of noise, dirt, etc. Until such time as every
family is in a position to provide for itself, the expenditure
on milk grants can be regarded as a sound
public health investment.
SUPPLY OF DRIED MILKS, Etc.
In connection with the work of the Council's
Centres dried milk of various brands, labelled specially