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3. The Invalid Children's Aid Association will carry out
investigations on the same lines as hitherto, and will submit a
medical certificate in those cases that are not referred directly
from the Welfare Centres.
4. In order to avoid overlapping, and to make sure of
selecting the best convalescent home for each particular case,
cases referred from the Welfare Centres to the Medical Officer
of Health will be investigated and exact details obtained for the
information of the Maternity and Child Welfare Committee,
through the Staff of the Invalid Children's Aid Association; it
being understood that this arrangement shall not be permitted to
interfere with the work falling within the scope of the health
visitors of the Borough.
5. In those cases where it is decided that the parents are
able to contribute to the cost of treatment, contributions will be
collected by the Invalid Children's Aid Association, and the
Maternity and Child Welfare Committee will, in no case, be
required to meet any cost other than that which the parents are
unable to afford, i.e., no payment will be made to the Invalid
Children's Aid Association by the parent or by the Maternity and
Child Welfare Committee except as a direct contribution towards
the actual cost of treatment of each case.
6. It is, of course, understood that only those cases that
are strictly within the scope of the Maternity and Child Welfare
Committee work of the Borough are to be considered by the
Maternity and Child Welfare Committee.
4.—PROVISION OF MILK AND OTHER FOODS TO
NECESSITOUS MOTHERS AND CHILDREN.
The supply of milk for necessitous mothers and children was
first granted as a Public Health measure in 1918, by the Milk
(Mothers and Children) Order, and the conditions concerning