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at the end of which the mother has to re-apply.
During the year 9,422 grants were made arising out
of 7,147 family applications and re-applications.
The grants were made up as follows :
Expectant mothers 514
Nursing mothers 1,565
Children under 3 5,994
Children 3-5 1,349
There were 2 sessions a week, and 23,746 attendances
at the Welfare Centre in connection with Milk
Grants.
During the year the following quantities of milk
were issued to necessitous mothers:—
Tuberculin Tested Milk 3,692 galls.
Dried Milk 36,259 pkts.
together with medicines, etc. The approximate cost
of milk given in this way was £2,900.
The arrangement with the L.C.C. whereby that
authority pays for the milk supplied to mothers
and children who are on Public Assistance, was
continued during the year, the refund amounting
to £548. The scheme involves a great deal of
clerical labour which might well be reduced if the
L.C.C. could adopt a simpler method of accounting
in the matter.
SUPPLY OF DRIED MILKS, Etc.
Apart from the milk issued free or at half-price,
dried milk of various brands, labelled specially to
the Council's directions to avoid the use of trade
names, is sold to the mothers a little above cost
price. The amount sold during the year was as
follows :—
Dried Milk 8,354 pkts.
NURSING ASSISTANCE.
A scheme of home nursing has been in operation
for some years by arrangement with a voluntary
organisation, the Shoreditch and Bethnal Green
Nursing Association.