Alternative Schemes

Northern Advocate, 14 March 1939, Page 9

Alternative Schemes

As it is impracticable to extend a pasteurised supply to every district, owing to areas of isolation and scattered population presenting insuperable difficulties in transportation, the Government has made arrangements for two alternative schemes, j The first is a cocoa scheme.

Schools who can obtain raw milk from a local herd, provided the milk has been tested and found free from T. 8., can arrange for a supply of milk, which is prepared at the school for cocoa. The allowance is the sdme as in the case of pasteurised milk—that is, that each child obtains half a pint of milk daily. j The second scheme is the malted milk or milk powder scheme. | Where reliable supplies of raw milk are unobtainable for cocoa making, or j where a reconstituted milk is preI Lferred, a whole-milk powder or a ! special mixture containing 80 per 'cent, whole milk and 20 per cent, malt Jean be supplied. The malt is regarded as flavouring only. The powder is so mixed to ensure that each child gets the equivalent of half a pint of milk daily.

In schools where this system is instituted, the purity of the water supply is assured by the Medical Officer of Health and proper arrangements for the sterilisation of utensils and coding of the mixture are made.

It is the Government's intention to pby for the supply of malted milk powder or raw milk.