View report page

89
great. Some check is possible from the observation of the progress
of children at the Centres.
(13) The recommendation of the Ministry that conditions
attached to the supply of dried milk at less than cost price should
be the same as the conditions attached to the supply of fresh
milk should be carried out as strictly as possible.
Voluntary and municipal Centres give this milk free or
at cost price, and it will greatly simplify matters if the procedure
hitherto followed is continued, i.e., that if, for instance,
an applicant is unable to meet the whole cost of the milk and
he can afford to pay a proportion of the cost, a quantity of milk
is given free and the remaining quantity is purchased at cost
price.
This results, as far as the accounts are concerned, in the
dried milk being given free, or purchased at cost price, whereas
in a certain proportion of cases the parents have in fact contributed
a percentage of the cost.
It is advisable in future that applications for dried milk
should be made on similar forms as those for wet milk in order
to comply more thoroughly with the request of the Ministry of
Health.
I should also state that neither of the voluntary Centres
give dried milk away unless an enquiry form has been sent to
the Health Office and the cost is to be met by the Council, to
that the enquiry or application form is filed as regards all cases
of free dried milk issued and a Milk Order form respecting each
person supplied with dried milk is sent to the Centre concerned,
and when the milk has been delivered the invoice is returned
for payment to be made to the voluntary Centre supplying the
milk.
The Ministry requests that stock books and vouchers should
be kept and that there should be periodical stocktakings.
Mr. Bowman has always kept a stock book showing receipts
of issues, and there is a yearly stocktaking in addition to the