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On December 17th the Ministry of Health sent their approval of the Council's
scheme, but pointed out that the income limits laid down in the scheme are
high in comparison with similar scales in force in other urban areas, and
trusting that the practical working of the scale would be kept under careful
observation, and asking that the Ministry might be furnished with the estimated
cost of the scheme as soon as this can be ascertained.
On December "23rd the Council adopted a resolution from Rhondda District
Council, and agreed to forward the same to the Prime Minister, the Minister
of Health, Food Controller, and Edmonton's Member of Parliament, viz.:—
" That in view of the diminution in the consumption of milk owing to the
present high price thereof and the consequent inability of the milk vendors
to earn a living wage, and their intention at an early date to suspend their
businesses unless immediate steps are taken by the Government to reduce the
price allowed to be charged by the wholesale dealers, this Council appeal to
the Government to reduce forthwith the prices authorised to be charged by
wholesale and retail dealers in milk, so as to obviate the threatened suspension
of deliveries by the retail dealers and the consequent hardship which would
be involved thereby to the public of this large industrial area. That this
Council requests that in view of the subsidy of Is. 8d. per gallon allowed on
the milk to be made into Grade 'A' cheese, that 8d. per gallon be paid on all
milk supplied to dealers and wholesalers, thereby allowing milk to be retailed
at 10d. per quart.''
MATERNITY AND CHILD WELFARE.
When the Council, on December 19th, 1917, decided to take over the
Centre, it was stipulated that a report should be presented every month from
the Committee, but this has not been adhered to; the number of reports presented
at Council meetings of 1919 varied from none to three!
A report dated January 24th was presented on February 25th. It stated
that the Committee had now extended its work to the treatment of minor
ailments, and had under consideration the further extension of the work with
regard to (a) dental treatment and (b) ante-natal treatment.
The next one, dated February 28th, was submitted on March 25th, in
which it was announced that the County Council had suggested a conference
with the District Councils on maternity and child welfare schemes. The
Committee also announced that they had agreed to start ante-natal treatment—
the clinic to be held half-an-hour before the present session at the Centre,
viz., from 2—2.30 p.m., and that Mrs. Outram be paid half-a-guinea per
session of one hour or less; that an advertisement be issued for a dentist to
attend fortnightly, the fee to be one guinea per session of two hours; (antenatal
equipment to cost £10, dental equipment £65); that to comply with