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Show Blitzed Bottle Babies Suffer Pram Shortage LONDON. Baby perambulators rank as first priority war relief in the Lancashire town of Bottle. So acute is the shortage that $2,400 donated do-nated by the British War Relief society so-ciety of America after the town was blitzed was completely used up purchasing pur-chasing 100 prams, which now are being sold to mothers. "We had to restrict them to mothers moth-ers of three or more children because be-cause of the great demand," Mrs. E. H. Smith, chairman of the Bottle maternity child welfare committee, said. The committee Is trying to purchase more prams, but manufacturers manufac-turers say they are unavailable, she added. Dr. F. T. Wood, Bottle medical officer, suggests that the present system, whereby doctors and mid-wives mid-wives issue certificates to enable mothers and expectant mothers to obtain extra milk and eggs, should be extended to perambulators. |