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NUTRITION.
Much attention is paid to the dissemination of the newer
knowledge of nutrition at the Council's clinics. During 1938
grants of liquid milk to the quantity of 17,090 gallons, costing
£1,826 were made to mothers and children whose family
financial circumstances were within the Council's economic
scale. Grants of dried milk and other accessory foods amounting
to £692 9s. 7d. were also made. In this regard dried milk
and accessory foods are also available at the clinics for other
families at cost price. Such, however, are always given only on
recommendation of the Medical Officers, so that the child for
whom the mother may purchase an accessory food at cost price
will obtain only that food which appears appropriate to the
child's special individual case.
Milk.—Milk is granted according to the economic circumstances
scale of the Council (vide Annual Report 1937):—
1937 1938
Number of families granted free milk during
year 500 683
Average number of families receiving free milk
in a month 211 293
Average number of new families receiving free
milk in a month 25 34
Number of families who applied for milk
grants during year, and whose economic
circumstances were beyond the scale 62 107
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) 71 122