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HOSPITAL TREATMENT FOR
MALNUTRITION.
We have no formal arrangement for prolonged
observation and in-patient treatment for children
suffering from dietetic mismanagement and malnutrition.
Such cases as cannot be dealt with through the
Council's Special Clinic for Delicate Children are
referred to the Queen's Hospital or one of the General
Hospitals.
SCALES OF CONTRIBUTIONS FOR MATERNITY
AND CHILD WELFARE SERVICES.
These scales were revised during the year to bring
them more into conformity with prevailing economic
circumstances.
PROVISION OF MILK FOR NECESSITOUS
MOTHERS AND CHILDREN.
The prevalence of unemployment and low wages
among the residents in the Borough, to which reference
has been made elsewhere, has led to increased privation
among the mothers and children. So far as necessitous
expectant and nursing mothers and young children
under 5 are concerned, the Council is able to render
some slight assistance by way of grants of milk. Grants
of this kind were made to 7,023 families (compared
with 7,990 in 1933), the grants being in respect of
8,575 individuals.
There were 2 sessions a week, and 22,340 attendances
at the Welfare Centre in connection with Milk
Grants.
During the year the following quantities of milk
were issued to necessitous mothers:—
Grade A (Tuberculin Tested) Milk 4,837 galls.
Dried Milk 31,861 pkts.
together with medicines, etc. The approximate cost of
milk given in this way was £2,8S5.