Pub Clinic (1958)

Great Tew, Oxfordshire. L/S of country house with a sign hanging above the door. C/U shot of the sign reads ’The Falkland Arms’. M/S of a little girl sitting in her pram. She is lifted up by her mother. M/S of several mothers carrying their babies into the pub! M/S of the women entering the pub. C/U shot of a bar - lots of bottles lined up. Camera pans down to show baby bottles. C/U shot of the food being poured into baby bottle. M/S of a woman in white uniform (nurse) getting the baby bottle ready. C/U shot of the woman’s hands placing rubber teat on the bottle. Medium panning shot across the pub showing mothers and children. High angle M/S of a woman with a baby in her arms. Baby is sleeping. This remote village has no facilities for a proper clinic so the pub’s landlady Mrs A. J. Haynes, who is very fond of children, offered the use of the bar between hours, which Oxfordshire County Council gratefully accepted. On this occasion health visitor Mary Ashby talks to the mothers about correct way of f