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non-tuberculous children. This lamp has been installed in the Tuberculosis
Dispensary at Dynham Road.
Arrangements have been made for the provision of ultra-violet
ray treatment for persons residing on the western side of the Borough
to supplement the arrangements with the Institute of Ray Therapy, of
152, Camden Road, whose services are more easily utilised by persons
from the eastern side of the Borough, owing to the difficulties experienced
in travelling to the Institute. The Willesden Physical Treatment
Clinic, of 159, Willesden L,ane, stated that they were able to
accommodate about six cases for two sessions per week at their
ordinary ultra-violet ray sessions, and that, if a sufficient number of
persons were sent for treatment, say a minimum of 12 to 20, arrangements
might be made for opening the department for two extra
sessions per week. Arrangements were accordingly made for sending
cases to the ordinary ultra-violet ray sessions for an experimental
period of three months.
Nutrition and Arrangements for the Supply of Milk and Food.
The Scale of Income for regulating the distribution of milk free
and at half cost price is that suggested by the Ministry of Health in
their communication of 25th March, 1925.
There have been 411 families assisted with free milk or milk at
half price during the year, for either expectant mothers, nursing
mothers or children under the age of 3 years; and in "special" cases
for children between 3 and 5 years.
245 children under 5 years of age have, in addition to the milk,
received free cod liver oil or emulsion.
An analysis of the cases shows that 608 per cent. were in full
work, but the income per head of the family was sufficiently low to
bring them within the scale of income adopted by the Council. These
circumstances were due to one. or some, or all, of the following
causes :—low wages, large number of children, high rents.
The suggestion of the Minister that in those cases in which
liquid milk was supplied it should, wherever possible, be efficiently
pasteurised, and that where that was not practicable the Medical