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The practice in connection with this scheme has been to
encourage the use of dried milk and fresh milk has only been
supplied in a relatively few number of cases. The cost has
been as follows:—
Fresh Milk £19 6s. 7d.
Dried Milk £2,458 0s. 0d.
Dried milk has been sold at cost price at all of the Centres
during the year to those who could not afford to pay the
ordinary trade price.
The Borough Council has made arrangements whereby
dinners for expectant and nursing mothers are provided at
eating houses to those recommended by the Medical Officer in
charge of the Maternity Clinics. Experience has shown that
this method of supplying food to expectant and nursing
mothers, although likely to give them more physiological
benefit than milk, is not popular, domestic difficulties in the
main accounting for the unpopularity of these meals. During
the year the cost of dinners was £99 0s. 6d.
In connection with the supply of food and milk the grant
of the Ministry of Health of 50 per cent. is available for
approved expenditure.