IN THE bleak aftermath of the Second World War, Keighley’s Westgate Infant Welfare Clinic was still distributing orange juice, cod liver oil, dried milk and vitamin tablets for babies.
But by 1950 only 30 per cent of local mothers were taking advantage of this service.
That November the Westgate clinic participated in a national publicity campaign organised by the Ministry of Food. Here are five notabilities posed literally “holding the baby”.
In front sit the Borough Mayor and Mayoress, Alderman and Mrs Ernest Hutchinson. Behind, from left to right, stand Alderman George H Norton, chairman of the Keighley Food Control Committee; TR Stobart, Food Executive Officer; and Dr HM Holt, Keighley’s Medical Officer for Health.
The twin girls on the Mayor’s knee were daughters of Mrs Eleanor S Bishop, of Silsden.
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