View report page

64
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.
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, makes it specially
necessary to care for the nutrition of mothers and
children, expectant and nursing mothers and young
children under 5.
The Council's grants of milk to necessitous
expectant and nursing mothers and young children
under five years are made for a period of 4 weeks
at the end of which the mother has to re-apply.
During the year 8,921 grants were made arising out
of 6,960 family applications and re-applications.
There were 2 sessions a week, and 23,073 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 3,552 galls.
Dried Milk 33,901 pkts.
together with medicines, etc. The approximate cost
of milk given in this way was £2,746.
The arrangement with the L.C.C. whereby that
authority pays for the milk supplied to mothers