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Municipal Mii.k Dep6t and Infants Consultations Centre.
(Municipal Milk Depot, inaugurated by the Council 1903 )
Record of Work carried out during 1925.
99 new infants and children were entered upon the Register and
fed, their ages being at the time of commencing the milk:—
Under 3 months 31 9-12 months 11
3-6 months 29 Over 12 months and
6-9 months 15 under 2 years 13
Total 99
Of the 31 infants under 3 months, 5 were aged 14 days or
under.
These 99 infants and children (under 2 years) may be classified,
as to their states of health at the time of being put upon the milk, as
follows:—Healthy, i.e., showing no signs of wasting or disease, though
often below par constitutionally, 50; weakly 29, wasting 8, diseased 12.
The diseases from which the 12 infants and children were actually, or
had recently been, suffering at the time of being put upon the milk were
diarrhoea and sickness 2, teething 1, scarlet fever 1, Rickets 1,
bronchitis 1, constipation 1, whooping cough 1, broncho pneumonia 1,
gastritis 1, and congenital malformation 2.
An average of 103 infants and children (under 2 years) were fed
per week at the Depot, necessitating the distribution for the year ol
106,231 bottles of milk mixture (5,788^ gallons), whilst, in addition,
milk was also supplied as follows:-
1. Lambeth Hospital—using 6,809 bottles of milk mixture
(852 gallons);
2. Nursing mothers—using 773 pint bottles of milk mixture
(96⅝ gallons);
3. Children over 2 years of age—using 749 pint bottles of
milk mixture (93! gallons).
A total of 6,640½ gallons of milk and 375 pints of cream were
used during 1925, distributed in 113,040 bottles.
Attached to the Milk Depot is an Infants Consultations Centre,
where consultations for mothers, infants and children (under 5 years
of age) are held, with the Medical Officer of Health and one of the
Council's Official Health Visitors in attendance. The babies are
weighed and the weights and other details tabulated in the Register,