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The Council's Milk Sub-Committee work in close co-operation with the Board of Guardians
and a scheme has been formulated whereby milk and dinners recommended by the Milk SubCommittee
are supplied by the Board to certain nursing mothers who are already in receipt of Poor
Law relief. This scheme obviates the undesirable practice of a person being granted a somewhat
similar form of relief by two different authorities.

NOTE.—The figures for fresh milk supplied by the Guardians after recommendation by the Milk Sub-Committee cannot be given separately.
THE WORK OF THE ADVISORY COMMITTEE TO THE MATERNITY AND
CHILD WELFARE COMMITTEE.
This Committee was formally constituted by the Council in 1920 and is composed of two
representatives appointed by each of the seven Infant Welfare Centres, with two appointed by the
Baby Clinic.
On the re-election of the Committee in January, 1927, the membership was as follows :—
Centre. Representatives„
Archer Street Infant Welfare Centre Mrs. Hillis and Miss Ramsden
Bramley Road ,, „ „ Mrs. Carnegie and Mrs. Graham Campbell
Campden Hill „ ,, ,, Mrs. Nisbet and Mrs. Ware
Earl's Court ,, ,, ,, Lady Trustram Eve and Mrs. Truscott
Golborne „ „ „ Mrs. Swan and Miss Fraser
Lancaster Road ,, ,, „ Mrs. Burne and Mrs. Webb
Raymede „ „ „ Mrs. Fox and Mrs. Sedgwick
The Baby Clinic „ ,, „ Lady Maurice and Dr. Bentham
Mrs. Carnegie was again appointed Chairman and Mrs. Burne Vice-Chairman.
During the year, many matters of importance occupied the attention of the Advisory Committee,
and it is to the wise counsel of this body that the smooth and harmonious working of the
Council's Maternity and Child Welfare Scheme must be mainly attributed.
HOUSING.
ACCOMMODATION EXISTING IN THE BOROUGH.
The number of private dwellings, self-contained maisonettes, mansion-flats, residential hotels
and boarding-houses in the Borough is approximately 21,422, and they are situated chiefly in
South Kensington and the Pembridge Ward of North Kensington. They are occupied by the
higher social and professional and semi-professional classes and present little difficulty to the
officers of the Public Health Department.
There are 885 houses of the cottage type, that is, with three or less bedrooms. These cottages
are distributed fairly evenly over all parts of the Borough and generally provide satisfactory
accommodation for single families.
The number of tenements in block buildings in various parts of the Borough occupied by the
working classes is approximately 520. As these are generally of fairly recent construction, they
are mostly satisfactory from the sanitary point of view.

There are in the Borough approximately 5,690 houses let in lodgings and occupied by the
working classes without having been specially adapted for the purpose. These houses are satisfactory
from the point of view of structural and architectural planning, and except for the fact that
they have in the majority of cases no bathroom, they would be regarded as providing satisfactory
accommodation as single-family houses. They are large, with a basement, ground floor,