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Maternity and Child Welfare.
Those supplied are only mothers who are known to
the Health Visitors and who attend the Welfare Centre
regularly to seek advice and to give an account of
the progress of their children. During the year 7,507
pound packets of dried milk, representing in money
value £849 3s. 4d., were sold at the Centre. Chymoll
Virol, cod-liver oil emulsion, paraffin oil for interna,
use, olive oil and malt, were also sold at cost price
under similar circumstances, the sales of these articles
amounting to £103 15s. 3d.
11. Day Nursery.— There was a distinct falling off
in the use of the Day Nursery. The total attendances
during the year were 5,365, compared with 6,244
during the previous year, the average attendauce being
21, compared with 24 for the previous year. The new
cases admitted were 49 compared with 54 for 1919.
The decrease in number was most evident during the
last quarter of the year, and was apparently due to a
number of the women who formerly sent their children
being thrown out of employment by trade depression,
the trade in which the mothers are most interested
in Ealing being laundrying.
12. Hostel for Unmarried Mothers and their Babies.—
The history of the inception of this institution was
noted in the Annual Report for last year, and was brought
up to the formation of a voluntary committee with the
four women members of the Maternity and Child Welfare
Committee as a nucleus. This voluntary committee
found they could not undertake to collect voluntary
subscriptions, and it was ultimately disbanded. The
Maternity and Child Welfare Committee then took over