Department are satisfied as to the competence and experience of the Medical Officer in charge, and as to the suitability of the equipment and premises.

The provision of artificial light treatment at an Infant Welfare Centre has been approved in the case of one Authority, a County Borough Council, who will commence the treatment as soon as the staff selected for this work have completed a suitable course of training.

Grants.

The grant paid under the Maternity and Child Welfare Regulations in the financial year 1926-27 amounted to £52,832, of which £47,593 was paid to Local Authorities and £5,239 to voluntary agencies.

The actual net expenditure of Local Authorities during the year 1925-26 may be allocated among its various purposes as follows:

The grant to voluntary agencies undertaking Maternity and Child Welfare work is calculated on the net expenditure during the previous year, after deduction of contributions by Local Authorities and payments by or on behalf of patients or inmates, and in the year 1926-27 was distributed as follows:

Midwifery
Centres

Homes and Hospitals

£

3,316

16

1,907

During the financial year 1926-27 grant amounting to £452 in aid of the training of midwives was paid under the conditions laid down in Memorandum 102/M.C.W..

BLIND PERSONS ACT, 1920.

During the year 1926, 85 cases were referred to the Welsh Regional Medical Officers for examination and report under the Act. This is a decrease of 12 as compared with the previous year. Of the 85 cases referred, 69 were found by the Regional Medical Officer to be blind, and 13 not blind, within the meaning of the Act. The remaining 3 cases were referred to eye specialists, who found 2 to be blind and 1 not blind. Under the Act every blind person who has attained the age of fifty is entitled to receive such pension as, under the Old Age Pensions Acts, he would be entitled to receive if he had attained the age of seventy, provided that he is so blind as to be unable to perform any work for which eye-sight is essential.

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Weight of Refuse and Cost of Collection and Disposal of

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(Loan or depreciation charges and expenditure for new plant out of revenue included (except

Returns Received from

Net Expenditure per Ton

per Annum.

Disposal.

Total.

Total net expenditure
excluding loan charges
per ton per annum
and expenditure for new
plant out of revenue.

1.

2.

3.

4.

6.

7.

DICES.

DIX I.

Refuse during the Year ended on the 31st March, 1926

County Borough Councils.

in column 7, where the figures are given, for comparison, exclusive of loan charges and such income deducted.)