The idea was for children to be well wrapped up. In the fifties we had winters and children had to be protected. Plenty of vitamin C, was the cure all. Not forgetting Syrup of Figs.

 

 

 

Nobody was safe from the bowel police!

 

 

 

 

 

 

The health of the children was paramount, especially the the preoccupation with the bowel. With all the advertising for soap the manufacturers seemed to forget that in the early fifties few people had a bathroom.

 

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