Comments made by welfare workers and medical officers show, it is stated, that with. the' inauguration of the scheme better health is being experienced by those workers who take milk daily. There has also been much less loss of work through absenteeism. The scheme followed the introduction of the milk-in-schools scheme, which the council regard as "a piece of good constructive work which has been a benefit to the nation "as a whole." Today nearly 3,000,000 children are receiving milk under the subsidized scheme. Efforts have also been made to extend it to school holidays so that the children may have the benefit of milk out of term time. This is particularly desirable, it is urged, as a further report has recently been published by the Milk Nutrition Committee of the Ministry of Health proving the nutritional value of milk.
Over 1000 milk bars have now been established, though the first appearance of one was at the Bath and West Show at Taunton in 1935. The council's staff have given during the year 10,745 lectures and demonstrations to aüdiences totalling 612,361, and there were 1,310 film showings to 126,453 people.
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