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Walthamstow 1931

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Walthamstow]

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6. ASSISTED MILK SCHEME.
Milk is supplied under this Scheme to expectant and nursing
mothers and to children under three years of age. It is not a condition
that applicants should attend the Welfare Centre, although,
in practice, many do so.
Applications are made on special forms which give particulars
of income and rent and are scrutinised each week by lady members
of the Maternity and Child Welfare Committee who attend in
rotation.

Table: Milk may be either granted free or at reduced cost, and the following shows the amount and approximate cost of milk granted by the Committee during 1931:—

Milk may be either granted free or at reduced cost, and the following shows the amount and approximate cost of milk granted by the Committee during 1931:—

Number of applications during 19312,874
Number of families assisted557
Scale.Amount.Cost to Authority.
£s.d.
Free756 pints990
½d. per pint51,327 ,,534131½
1d. ,, ,,29,048 ,,24214
2d. ,, ,,28 ,,24
Half-cost11,977 ,,74171½
Total93,136 ,,£861211

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7. HOME HELPS.
Applications for the provision of Home Helps are considered by
the Milk Rota Committee, and, if approved, a payment of 12s. 6d.
per week for two weeks is made. In addition to the three home helps
approved during 1931, many mothers attending the Clinic made
their own arrangements to obtain the help of suitable women whose
names were supplied by the Health Visitors.
8. INSTITUTIONAL TREATMENT, ETC.
A total of 22 children were sent to Institutions under arrangements
approved by your Committee. The details were as follows:—
Brookfield Orthopaedic Hospital, 12 (of these 2 were Education
Committee's cases); Brookscroft, 2; Streatham Babies' Hospital, 2;
Swanley, Mayfield, St. Margaret's, Cheyne, Sutton and Lennox
Hospitals, 1 each.
9. HOSPITAL ACCOMMODATION FOR
CONFINEMENTS.
(a) Of 1,721 notified births where information was available,
1,263 occurred at home, and 458, or 26.6 per cent., in Institutions.