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The Council resolved to put this Order into force, and that the subject be
referred to the Public Health Committee, with instructions to draw up a scheme
for the consideration of the Council and the Ministry of Health.
In November, the Public Health Committee reported that, after giving
consideration to the above-mentioned letters, it had been decided (on the
advice of the M.O.H.) to convene a conference of that Committee with the
representatives of the medical practitioners, midwives, milk retailers, War
Pensions Committee, Canteen Committee, Food Control Committee, Maternity
and Child Welfare Committee, and the Relieving Officer of the Guardians,
for the purpose of obtaining the views of the various parties interested. This
conference was held on Monday, 17th November, when it appeared that the
only other source of distribution which might overlap the Council's was that
by. the Guardians through the Relieving Officers, who at that time were distributing
milk at the value of £8 8s per week, but this supply was distributed
not only to those the Council proposed to deal with, i.e., expectant and nursing
mothers and children under five years of age, but also to invalids, old people
and weakly children over five years of age. To avoid over-lapping in this
direction, the special meeting of the Public Health Committee of the 21st
November recommended that the Guardians be requested to furnish the Medical
Officer of Health, every four weeks, with a list of the names and addresses
of the families in the Edmonton Urban District who have received milk from
the Guardians, and the quantity per day allowed.
At this special meeting of the Public Health Committee, the Medical
Officer of Health presented a Report on "Municipal Milk Scheme," dated
20th November, as follows:—
To the Chairman and Members of the Public Health Committee.
Mrs. Benjafield and Gentlemen,
At your special meeting for to-morrow, 1 propose to read to you,
for remembrance, a condensed transcript of the shorthand notes of the
conference between you and the representatives of the various bodies in
the district on Monday last, the 17th instant.
As regards the scheme itself, the basis is, of course, the circular of
the Ministry of Health, dated the 11th October, 1919, and addressed to
County Councils and Sanitary Authorities. Herein the Ministry asks
that Local Authorities (who have hitherto not made arrangements) should
carefully consider the question without delay, after receiving the report
on the local circumstances from their Medical Officer of Health.
Any scheme adopted in pursuance of this circular should be communicated
to the Ministry with the estimate of the cost. If our scheme