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is within the economic scale such foods are supplied free,
while to all others attending the clinics the foods as advised by
the clinic Medical Officers are supplied at the price at which the
Council buy.
During 1937 grants of liquid milk to the value of
£1,257 8s. 8d. were made to mothers and children whose
financial circumstances were within the adopted economic scale.
Grants of dried milk and other accessory foods amounting to
£521 Is. 11½d. were also made.
The final paragraph of the Circular asked that Authorities
consider the question of any local need for organising arrangements
for the serving of meals. While this is a matter ever
kept in mind by the Maternity and Child Welfare Committee,
up to the present it has been considered that there is no need to
make a recommendation.
OTHER SERVICES.
Milk.—Milk is granted according to an economic circumstances
scale (see page 38).
Number of families granted free milk during 1937 500
Average number of families receiving free milk in
a month 211
Average number of new families receiving free
milk in a month 25
Number of families who applied for milk grants
during year, and whose economic circumstances
were beyond the scale 62
Number of families to whom grant had been given
during the year, but who had also in the year
become outside the scale—(generally resumption
of work) 71
Artificial Sunlight and Massage.
The arrangements whereby artificial sunlight, X-ray examination
and massage are given at the Wembley Hospital and at
Redhill County Hospital continued throughout the year.
Cases referred for this treatment either to Wembley
Hospital or to Redhill County Hospital numbered 81, 9 being
under one year of age and 72 between the ages of one and five
years. 810 treatments were given. The causes for the treatments
were:—rickets — anaemia — delayed dentition —
torticollis — bowing tibiae — genu valgum — recurrent bronchitis
— debility — general atonia.
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