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172
Ante-natal Clinic
Mothers attending 117
Total attendances 439
(l) Supply of Milk, etc., to Necessitous Mothers and
Children. The cost of milk and dinners supplied to nursing
and expectant mothers and to young children during the year
was as follows:—
Dried milk, £1,246 0s. 5d. Fresh milk, £1 16s. 4d.
Dinners, Nil.
This service is administered strictly in accordance with
the provisions of Circular 185, under which milk may be
supplied at less than cost price, in necessitous cases only, to—
(a) Nursing mothers ; (6) Expectant mothers in the last three
months of pregnancy ; (c) Children up to three years of age ;
and, exceptionally, to children between three and five years
of age on a special medical certificate. The quantity of milk
must not exceed one pint per day, but, in exceptional circumstances,
infants between three and eighteen months may
receive 1½ pints per day.

Per head, after deduction of rent.