After her arrival in Bahamas in 1940, the Duchess of Windsor set about establishing two infant welfare clinics on New Providence Island. The Duchess was head of the Bahamas Red Cross and took an interest in infant welfare. The clinics were funded by the Bahamas Assistance Fund (a trust established by her husband, the Duke of Windsor).
The clinics were supervised by the medical staff of Bahamas General Hospital. The Duchess bought a car for the visiting nurse and she attended clinic days to interview particularly needy or urgent cases. In 1963 a doctor was assigned to the clinic.
The clinic depicted on ½d stamp is the Infant Welfare Clinic at Baillou Hill Road, Grants Town, Nassau.
Details
- Designer:
- Printer: Bradbury Wilkinson & Co Ltd, New Malden, Surrey, England
- Process: Recess
- Paper:
- Watermark: Multiple Script CA
- Perf: 11 x 11.5 (comb)
- Plates: Printed in two panes of 60, separated by a vertical gutter and guillotined through gutter for distribution in single panes.
- 1 (Red-orange) 1 (Black) : 1a (Red-orange) 1a (Black) [Left : Right]
- Sheet: R10 x 6 (60 stamps)
- Quantity:
- Reprints:
- 2nd Printing – 14 April 1955
- 4th Printing – 30 May 1956
- 6th Printing – 11 September 1957
- 8th Printing – 14 January 1959
- 11th Printing – 7 February 1961
Sheet Numbers (1st & 2nd Printing)
Sheet Numbers (4th Printing)
Sheet Numbers (6th Printing)
Sheet Numbers (8th Printing)
Sheet Numbers (11th Printing)
References
- Behind Closed Doors: The Tragic, Untold Story of the Duchess of Windsor (2011) – Hugo Vickers
- British Caribbean Philatelic Journal: Vol. 53, No. 2, April-June 2013 (PDF)
- Report on the Bahamas (1952)