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Milk in Necessitous Cases.
158 applicants were "ranted one pint of milk (pasteurised)
per day for varying periods during 1937. The total
quantity supplied was 1,(527 gallons, and a small quantity
of dried milk in lieu of liquid milk was granted to the
extent of 31 lbs. Milk is granted on medical grounds, and
only to those cases whose family income does not exceed
the following scale: Father and Mother £2., for the 1st
child, 5/-., and for any subsequent child, 2/6.
Clinic Treatments of Children under 5 Years, and Mothers.
For some years past the services provided through the
School Medical Service have been available to children
under 5 years of age. The special clinics and the services
of the specialists are available to the Maternity and Child
Welfare Services and their use is encouraged so that maladjustments
are treated early and corrected before the child
reaches school age.

Public Health (Ophthalmia Neonatorum)
Regulations, 1926.
It is usual under this heading of the report to give a
special account of the working of these Regulations.
Notification is forthcoming in most cases of discharging
of the young baby, but in many minor cases there