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In the second half of the year there was put into
operation a scheme of co-ordination between the London
County Council Public Assistance service and the
Borough Council's Milk Grants for expectant and
nursing mothers and young children. Under the new
arrangements, the Borough Council's expenditure on
milk supplied to families who are on public assistance
is refunded by the L.C.C. This amounted to £367 at
the end of the year. The scheme involves the
provision to the L.C.C. of a monthly medical certificate
in respect of each case and a fairly elaborate accounting
system. It is understood that the milk provided is an
addition to the relief which is granted by the L.C.C.
As a reciprocal arrangement, expectant mothers
who are attending the L.C.C. Ante-Natal Clinics and
who are in poor circumstances but not on public
assistance are wherever necessary referred to the
Borough Council's Welfare Centres for milk grants
under the Maternity and Child Welfare scheme.
The new arrangments are working fairly well but
I am bound to observe that the volume of clerical
work involved by the present system of accounting
seems to me to be wholly out of proportion with the
amount of money concerned in the transfer.
SUPPLY OF DRIED MILKS, Etc.
Apart from the milk issued free or at half-price,
dried milk of various brands, labelled specially to the
Council's directions to avoid the use of trade names, is
sold to the mothers a little above cost price. The
amount sold during the year was as follows :—
Dried Milk. 6,017 pkts.
NURSING ASSISTANCE.
A scheme of home nursing has been in operation
for some years by arrangement with a voluntary
organisation, the Shoreditch and Bethnal Green
Nursing Association.