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Supply of Sheets for Expectant Mothers.
By arrangement with the Ministry of Health and the Board of Trade
Priority Dockets for utility sheets, on production of a medical certificate,
are issued to expectant mothers who are confined in their own homes.
These were issued through the Maternity and Child Welfare Centres and
89 dockets and 291 coupon equivalent certificates were issued to expectant
mothers during the first half of 1948 as compared with 576 for the previous
whole year.
Supply of Welfare Foods.
By arrangement with the Ministry of Food, national dried milk, fruit
juices, vitamin tablets and cod liver oil were distributed to expectant
mothers and children at the Maternity and Child Welfare Centres in the
City.
The City Council as a Welfare Authority had for many years also
supplied food accessories in the way of dried milk, cod liver oil, &c., to
necessitous mothers and children, and have continued to do so under the
direction of the Clinic doctors.

Diphtheria Immunization and Schick Testing.
The following are particulars of children under five years of age who
have been immunized against diphtheria in the City.