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Sewing Classes.
Two classes are held each week—one at the Model Welfare Centre on
Thursday afternoon and one at the School for Mothers on Monday afternoon.
These classes fulfil a most useful purpose, as many young girls in Shoreditch
work in factories when they leave school and are ignorant of needlecraft when
they marry.

Dining Centres.
There are two Dining Centres, one at 31, Herbert Street and one at the
Model Welfare Centre, both under the direct control of the Maternity and
Child Welfare Committee. At these Centres, the Maternity and Child
Welfare Committee allow dinners to necessitous mothers upon the certificate
of the Assistant Medical Officer of Health and the recommendation of the
Health Visitor. Eligibility for these allowances is determined by the application
to each case of the approved scale of income set out in the next section
of this report dealing with milk allowances.
Except in special cases where the need is urgent, all statements as to
income are verified before the allowance is made.
Great benefit is derived from these dinners both during the later months
(5th to 9th inclusive) of pregnancy and the period of lactation.

The menus were revised during the year and fresh fruit and salads were
more freely introduced.
In October a scheme was commenced under which selected children under
five years of age who were eligible on financial grounds to receive milk
allowances should as an alternative be allowed dinners at the Welfare Centre
on the recommendation of the doctor at the Welfare Centre and the Health
Visitor.