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19,753 pints of fresh milk and 2,495 packets of dried milk
were distributed during the year.
CONVALESCENT HOMES AND OTHER ARRANGEMENTS
FOR BENEFITING DELICATE AND AILING
CHILDREN.
The Council renewed for another year their arrangement with
the National League for Health, Maternity and Child Welfare for
a payment of £50 to have the use of a cot at Maidenhead or
Basing.
Through the Invalid Children's Aid Association children may
be sent to convalescent homes and other institutions and be provided
with surgical appliances, subject to the approval of the
Medical Officer of Health, the Council allocating a sum of £180
per annum for this purpose.
Leyton is well served by many hospitals in the surrounding
neighbourhood. Walthamstow, West Ham and Hackney every
year receive and treat a large number of children, and there is
hardly a hospital in the Metropolis which does not play a part in
the treatment of Leyton's ailing children.
In Leyton itself there is the Whipps Cross Hospital, to which
a large debt of gratitude is due.