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Ealing 1931
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Ealing]
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Free Supply of Milk to School Children.
(Sections 82—85 Education Act, 1921).
Scheme for supply of milk to necessitous children commenced on the 1st April, 1930.
| Number of children for whom a supply of milk was approved, 1st January, 1931 | 340 |
| Number of children whose addition to the lists was approved during the year | 213 |
| Number of children to whom supply was discontinued | 144 |
| Number of children being supplied at the end of the year | 409 |
| Total number of children who received milk during the year | 553 |
| Daily average number of children who received a supply of milk | 321 |
| Total number of bottles of milk supplied | 68,311 |
| Cost of milk supplied £2 | £284 12s. 7d. |
CO-OPERATION OF OTHERS IN THE SCHOOL
MEDICAL SERVICE.
In previous reports recognition was made of the great assistance
rendered by the teachers and by the school enquiry officers in the
work of school medical inspection and treatment. Through their
agency the parents are being encouraged more and more to appreciate
school medical inspection and to obtain treatment for defects
found or to carry out instructions regarding the care of those
children whose continuous supervision is necessary in the prevention
of disease.
As in former years acknowledgment must be made of the
very real help obtained from the Central Aid Society, from the
National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, from
the School Attendance Aid Committee in supplying boots to needy
children and from the Middlesex King Edward Memorial Committee
in giving holidays at their Holiday Home at Bexhill to anaemic
or badly nourished children.