SIR: To answer Mrs J Horsefield's question - "Was I the only baby born at B.R.I.?" - sorry, no. I also was born there in May, 1931, by Caesarean Section.

My mother was in Nicholson Ward. Her name was Alice Smith (nee Sykes). My father's name was Thomas Smith. I was christened Joyce Maud, my second name being after the staff nurse who helped to deliver me. Her name was Maud Mary (surname unknown).

Mrs J M Welsh,

Molyneux Road,

Westhoughton.

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