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period, and at the expiration of the period a further enquiry form
has hitherto been completed and signed as regards every "repeat"
case.
(10) The Ministry suggest a model form of invoice. The
invoice in use in this Department is considerably better than that
suggested by the Ministry. When the order is made out a duplicate
carbon copy is filled in at the same time and the order and invoice
are sent out together on one sheet (separated by perforations), to
the milkmen, the order being retained by the milkman as his
authority to supply, and the invoice being retained by the office
where the carbon copy of the order is cancelled before the invoice
is sent forward to the Finance Committee for payment, after
consideration by the Maternity and Child Welfare Committee.
Both the order and invoice used in this Department state the
proportion of cost to be met by the parent, and in addition on the
invoice the vendor certifies that the proportion has in fact been
paid.
It is desirable that the present system should be retained and
it will be simple enough to insist in the future that the person
supplied signs that the milk has been delivered, this being the
one improvement on our present form as compared with the
model form of the Ministry. It is particularly desirable that the
milkman should return a separate invoice for each family, rather
than an invoice for several families, as suggested in the Ministry's
model form.
(11) IF the Ministry wish a milk card to be issued in addition,
this can be carried out, but there appears to be no real
necessity for such proceeding, particularly if the recipient of
the milk is to sign the invoice on completion of the order.
(12) It has been the regular custom to take samples for
examination by the Public Analyst. The difficulty of seeing that
milk is consumed by the person for whom it is intended is very