Mobile infant welfare unit MED01_01_2635

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Borough General Hospital, Tremona Road, Shirley Warren, City of Southampton. Nurses posed by a van of the mobile infant welfare unit at Borough General Hospital.
In January 1942 the mobile infant welfare unit was presented to the Ministry of Health by Boots, who also maintained and staffed the unit. It was allocated to Southampton and Portsmouth and could travel to areas where air raids and bombing had disrupted regular child welfare services
Copyright © Historic England Archive
Media ID 22671362
Date: 23rd August 2021
Source: Historic England Archive
Job Title: Photographer
Credit: Historic England Archive
Image Size: 5886 x 4342 Pixels
Filesize is 2.86MB
Associated Categories: Lorries trucks and vans
Associated Categories: Before the NHS
Keywords: automobile, health and welfare, mobile nursing, nurses, people, people posed, road transport, second world war, uniforms, welfare centre, women, ww2