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but under the aegis of a Committee, formed either independently
of or in connection with the Richmond Diocesan Rescue and
Preventive Association.
Supply of Milk. Adequate arrangements for the assisted or free
supply of milk have been made. The Maternity
and Child Welfare Committee received 83 applications for assisted
or free supplies of milk during the year. 74 applicants were
granted permits to obtain milk either free or at half price, and 9
were found unsuitable for assistance.
The Committee have for some time worked on the following
scale:—
Free Milk where total income, less rent, is £2 a week or less, or if
over £2 does not exceed 10s. per head per week.
Half-price milk where total income, less rent, is over £2 and between
10s, and 15s. per head per week.
Recently they have as regards the quantities of milk given considered
in each case the recommendations of the circular sent out
by the Central Government in connection with the Milk (Mothers
and Children) Order, 1918.
The sum of £201 has been expended during the calindar year.
The Work of Voluntary Societies.
During the year 1920, 13 women were afforded relief by the
Richmond Lying-in Charity, of which Mrs. Terry is the Hon. Secretary.
Eleven of these were attended by a midwife and 2 by a
doctor. Dwellers east of Sandycombe Road are not eligible for
benefit from the Richmond Lying-in Charity, and the following are
not entitled to the charity:—
(a) A woman expecting her first child.
(b) A woman who has not lived one year in Richmond,
(c) A woman whose husband is a servant in place.
(d) A woman whose husband is in receipt of wages that
may be considered to disqualify his wife from
seeking help from this Charity.