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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Willesden 1910
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Willesden]
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Arrangements are being made for patterns of the most suitable
kinds of baby clothes to be obtained, and we are hoping to give
instructions in the cutting out and making of these garments.
The results of any work of this sort must necessarily be very slow
as any innovation is looked upon with suspicion, and the apathy of the
mothers generally is very difficult to overcome, and to awaken interest
in these things is not an easy matter.