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Section 22 states that "The Council may establish, maintain,
" manage and carry on a depot for the sale of sterilised
"milk and humanised milk, and may appropriate and
"use such lands as may be necessary or expedient for
"that purpose, and may provide laboratories, plant and
"machinery, and may buy, sterilise, humanise and sell
"milk for infants under two years of age. Such depot
" shall be subject to the medical supervision of the
"medical officer of health of the borough and shall be
"carried on in accordance with regulations to be approved
by the Local Government Board.
"In this Section, the expression 'humanised milk' means
"milk specially treated, so as to be suitable for
"consumption by infants under two years of age."
Section 23 limits the amount that may be borrowed for the
purpose to £500.
During the summer and Autumn your Medical Officer of
Health visited the principal infant Milk Depots in Normandy and
in this country. In visiting the latter he was accompanied by
Councillor Dr. Slater (now Mayor) and by Chief Inspector Duck.
A report on the work of these depots and others, as to which
particulars were obtained, was presented and printed in your
Council's Minutes of the 16th November, 1905, page 36. On the
same day you resolved to establish an Infant Milk Depot, and a
plan has now been obtained for adopting part of the Maxey
Road Offices to this purpose.
Public Ambulance.
48. The public ambulance for accidents and non-infectious
illness was used 110 times compared with {JO and 97 times in the
two preceding years. The following were the journeys made.
To Guy's Hospital 37 To London Hospital .10
„ Cottage „ 13 „ Charing Cross 8