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Thirty-four children were operated on; 17 cases were free, being below
the scale mentioned above, the remainder contributed 5s. each. The cost
to the Committee is 10s. 6d. per child.
MUNICIPAL MILK SUPPLY.
The arrangements recorded in the report for 1932 still holds.
Details are as follows :—
Number of applications 2,341
Number of recipients 2,292
Number of pints granted at quarter cost 88,725
Actual number of applicants 429
CONVALESCENT HOMES.
Two mothers and one child have been sent for convalescent treatment
•during the year, the expenses being paid wholly by the Committee for the
two mothers, but part cost for the child under a contract with the I.C.A.A.
ARTIFICIAL SUNLIGHT.
During the year only 16 children were sent to the County Hospital to
receive this form of treatment. There was an average gain in weight of
1 lb. 11 oz.
Ten of these children were improved, four were discharged as absentees
and two improved, but attendance was cancelled on account of infectious
disease.
HOME HELPS.
There is not an extensive demand for these; during the year only six
mothers applied for their services.
INFECTIOUS ILLNESSES.
Cases Cases
notified, visited.
Ophthalmia Neonatorum 5 5
Puerperal Fever 13 7
Puerperal Pyrexia 18 10
Measles (non-notifiable) 13
Whooping Cough ( ,, ) 64
Diarrhoea ( ,, ) 34
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