[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Walthamstow].

  • Walthamstow (England). Borough Council.
Date:
[1936?]
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    101 Scale. Amount. Approximate Cost to Authority. £ s. d. Free 328 pints 4 8 5 ½d. per pint 79,319 „ 926 4 3 1d. per pint 91,249 „ 873 10 6 2d. per pint 56 „ 7 0 Half-cost 21,071 „ 144 5 5 192,023 pints £1,948 15 7 At the suggestion of the Ministry of Health, and in order to minimise overlapping between the Council's assisted milk scheme and the work of the Public Assistance Committee, it was decided that milk for expectant and nursing mothers and young children should be provided primarily under the Maternity and Child Welfare assistance rather than as public assistance. 7. HOME HELPS. Applications for the provision of Home Helps are con sidered by the Milk Rota Committee and, if approved, a payment of 12/6 per week for two weeks is made. In addition to the 60 Home Helps approved during 1935, many mothers attending the Clinic made their own arrangements to obtain the help of suitable women whose names were supplied by the Health Visitors. The demand for Home Helps has grown progressively during the past five years: 1931 (3), 1932 (12), 1933 (18), 1934 (21), 1935 (60). 8. INSTITUTIONAL TREATMENT, ETC. A total of 7 children were sent to Institutions under arrange ments approved by your Committee. The details were as follows :—Brookfield Orthopædic Hospital, 5; Herne Bay, 2. One mother was sent away for post-natal convalescent home treatment.
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