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greatest. The Council make an annual grant of £50 towards the expenses
of the nursery organised by the British Red Cross Society.
Supply of Milk.—Fresh and dried milk is supplied to certain cases
recommended by the mcdical officer of the maternity and child welfare
centre. Before the grants are made a standard of income laid down by
the Ministry must be proved. In some instances the weekly income
does not justify an award of free milk, but those cases may come within
the scale for milk at half price. The applications are considered by a
meeting of the ladies of the Maternity and Child Welfare Sub-Committee,
which takes place once a month at each centre. Grants are made for
a period of one month and are reconsidered for continuation at each
meeting. Preparations of dried milk are sold at cost price in connection
with the centres, 3,837 pounds being disposed of during the year. The
amount expended by the Council for fresh milk as extra nourishment
for mothers and infants amounted to £78 13s. 6d.
INSPECTION AND SUPERVISION OF FOOD.
The provision of food for an island population which depends more
and more on supplies from overseas, has become a highly organised and
very complicated undertaking. The varieties of foodstuffs increase in
number as also do the methods of compounding them. The task of
supervising food in its original state and the preparations and compounds
which are devised in various forms requires increasing vigilance so that
the public may be safeguarded from articles which may be unsound,
adulterated or otherwise injurious to health.
To render the administrative control of food less complicated, Parliament
has passed a consolidating statute, The Food and Drugs (Adulteration)
Act, 1928. This Act includes the essential and most useful provisions
of statutes dealing with food and drugs from the Sale of Food and
Drugs Act, 1875, onwards. The following are the repeals set out in the
schedule to this Act which came into force on 1st January, 1929.
Act. Portions Repealed.
The Sale of Foods and Drugs Act, 1875 The whole Act, except sees. 30, 31 and 36.
The Sale of Food and Drugs Act Amendment The whole Act.
Act, 1879
The Margarine Act of 1887 The whole Act.
The Burgh Police (Scotland) Act, 1892 In sec. 432 the words " under the Sale of
Food and Drugs Act, 1875, and also
The Sale of Food and Drugs Act, 1899 The whole Act.
The Butter and Margarine Act, 1907 The whole Act.
The Milk and Dairies (Scotland) Act, 1914 Sec. 27.
The Milk and Dairies (Consolidation) Act, 1915 Sec. 9 and 3rd Schedule.
The Finance Act, 1921 Sec. 23.
The Licensing Act, 1921 Sec. 10.
The Sale of Food and Drugs Act, 1927 The whole Act.