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Grants of Milk.
Milk is supplied free or at reduced rates to expectant mothers
(during last three months of pregnancy) to nursing mothers, and to
children under three.
The scale of grants for provision of milk has been fixed as
follows : —
Where the family income after deducting rent is less than
4/- per head free.
4/- to 5/- per head parent pay 1/3 cost.
5/- to 7/6 per head parent pay 2/3 cost.
Where the amount is over 7/6 per head, no grant is made.
Number of grants made during the year was 93.
Where a case is being dealt with by the Guardians the Committee
take the view that the whole case should be dealt with by one
Authority, and refuse to make any grant.
Ophthalmia Neonatorum.
Seven children were notified as suffering from this disease.
Three were notified from West Middlesex Hospital. All the case;;
made a complete recovery.
The number of cases is fortunately comparatively few. The
numbers notified are really magnified by notifications from the
West Middlesex Hospital, which is a Poor Law Institution covering
a very wide area outside our own district. There is a difficulty
in dealing with these cases which if possible ought to be overcome,
that is, that London Hospitals other than Lock Hospitals will nor
take in the mother and the child, and there is a very real difficulty
which those of us who have to set the machinery in motion have to
face.
It is true that the worst cases are generally venereal in origin,
but there are as is well known, a certain number of cases which are
not gonococcal in origin, and yet if a case is notified as Ophthalmi
Neonatorum in order to get immediate treatment for the safety