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96
Percentage of notified live births represented
by number of children under 1 year of
age who attended the Centres for the
first time (i.e., new cases)
1936 91.3
Percentage of total notified births represented
by number of expectant mothers attending
Ante-Natal Clinics
1936 56.5
Nursery School and Classes.—Apart from the children at the
Nursery School, 479 children born in 1932-33 (i.e., under 5 years of
age) were on the School Registers on 31st December, 1936.
6. ASSISTED MILK SCHEME.
One pint of milk per day was granted to expectant mothers at
any time during pregnancy. A medical or midwife's certificate as
to pregnancy is required. Milk is granted free to nursing mothers
for the first 14 days following confinement. One pint of milk per
day is granted to children up to 3 years of age. In breast-fed infants
this is equivalent to a grant to the nursing mother. Children
between 3 and 5 years of age are granted milk on medical certificate
only.
In all cases where milk is granted it has been limited to one
pint daily for 28 days when a further application is required.
Dried Milk, Cod Liver Oil, Parrish's Food, Virol, Cod Liver
Oil and Malt, etc., are supplied at the Welfare Centres at cost price.
Free issues are made on medical certificate.
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
in order to assess the applications on the scale which has been
approved.
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 1936 :—
Number of applications during 1936 6,497
Number of families assisted 1,131