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Free Milk Scheme.
Milk is supplied to expectant and nursing mothers and to children
under 3 years of age (in special circumstances 5 years).
Dried milk is supplied under the scheme, with the exception that
Tuberculin Tested milk is supplied in special cases (infants) where the
Medical Officers in charge of the Council's Child Welfare Clinics consider
its use specially desirable.
It is a condition of the supply of free milk that unless prevented on
medical grounds, all recipients should be seen at regular intervals at their
nearest Maternity and Child Welfare Centre.
The Ministry of Health Circular 1519 was considered by the Maternity
and Child Welfare Committee in May and the Council agreed to extend
the Free Milk Scheme to include provision of milk in the following cases
when the persons came within the income scale and were recommended
by Clinic Medical Officers:—
(a) To expectant mothers whose pregnancies for any reason terminated
at or before term without living child;
(b) To mothers whose babies died during the first four weeks of
life (neo-natal period);
(c) To mothers whose condition is debilitated at the termination of
breast feeding;
(d) To mothers whose babies are artificially fed and whose general
condition is debilitated.
In these cases one pint of milk (or its equivalent in dried milk)
to be supplied when recommended by Clinic Medical Officers for as long
as they consider there is need on medical grounds, but this period not
to exceed three months except in very special cases which must be the
subject of a special report to the Medical Officer of Health for subsequent
report to the Committee. (In three cases during the year milk was
granted for longer than three months.)
The Council also adopted the following recommendations:—
(a) That the maximum amount of milk which may be received
by one family be increased from 3 pints per day (or its equivalent
in dried milk) to 4 pints per day (or its equivalent in dried
milk);
(b) That while continuing the use of dried milks of reputable brands
for general supply, "Pasteurised" milk be supplied upon