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INVITATION - OPENING KELMSCOTT INFANT HEALTH CENTRE

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1940

Overview

Cream-coloured rectangular card with pink borders and a gold scalloped edge.
Text printed in brown ink reads: [The Committee of the / KELMSCOTT INFANT HEALTH CENTRE / Request the pleasure of the Company of / Mr. & Mrs. ... / at the / Official Opening of its Clinic Building / on Saturday, 31st August, 1940, at 3 p.m. / G. E. Bunney, J.P. President. / G. Mair, Hon. Secretary / R.S.V.P. by 17th August]
Hand-written additions to the printed text have crossed out 'Mr.' and 'Mrs.' and have added the text: [Chairman & Secretary & members of Road Board & Wives] on the ... line following [Mr. & Mrs.].

Historical information

Invitation sent to the Chairman, members and wives of the Armadale Kelmscott Road Board for the opening on the Kelmscott Infant Health Centre on 31/8/1940. This was the first infant health centre in the district and was located on Albany Highway, near the Kelmscott Railway Station.
The Infant Health Centres were part of a state government program to improve the health of infants and their parents as well as improve the parents understanding of infant health and care. The program was started in the mid 1920s and operated through to the mid 1980s.

Details

Registration number

cwa-org-33-COA2013.31

Item type

Documents

Themes

People
Social History

Material

Card

Ink

Width

113 mm

Height or length

76 mm

Keywords

Armadale Kelmscott Road Board

Infant Health Centre, Kelmscott

Kelmscott

BUNNEY George Ezra L/C

Mair G

Year

1940

Statement of significance

This object is part of a collection associated with significant buildings and places in the City of Armadale. These buildings or have played a role in the social, economic and or spiritual development of the district. They can also be aesthetically and architecturally significant. The building or places can also be associated with significant people, organisations or businesses who have all had an impact on the City of Armadale.

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