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(c) Supply of Nutrients and Appliances.
Dried Milk and other nutrients have been issued from the
Maternity and Child Welfare Centre during the year and also small
appliances such as bandages, belts, teats, etc., for which a charge
has been made.
The Ministry of Food was also responsible during the year for
the issue of National Dried Milk, National Milk Cocoa and
Concentrated Orange Juice in accordance with their recognised
scale of charges.
4. Notification of Births.
Arrangements have been in operation during the year whereby
the London County Council has furnished to the Borough Council
a weekly return of births (including stillbirths) which have been
notified to them as the Local Health Authority under the National
Health Service Act, 1946.
During the year 1,037 live births (533 male and 504 female)
were notified and in addition there were 19 stillbirths (14 male and
5 female).
These figures represent corrected totals after the addition of
inward transfers and the deletion of outward transfers.