Malt, virol and cod liver oil!

[GOLDEN OLDIE]

I seem to remember my mother getting not only malt, virol and cod liver oil from a clinic I think at Firth Park in the 1950s. Were we seriously undernourished after the War? Anyone else remember?

[Joanl]

Don't forget the Orange Juice as well (vit C).....and yes I suppose we were lacking in certain vitamins.

[GOLDEN OLDIE]

Yes, wasn't the orange jouice in small bottles and had to be diluted? Was the clinic on North or West Quadrant where there is still, I believe a NHS clinic?

[echo beach]

I seem to remember my mother getting not only malt, virol and cod liver oil from a clinic I think at Firth Park in the 1950s. Were we seriously undernourished after the War? Anyone else remember?

 

Yes, all three; plus orange and Rose Hip Syrup. The trend in those days was to have bonnie (aka fat) babies, otherwise they were malnourished!

[palascrubs]

I seem to remember my mother getting not only malt, virol and cod liver oil from a clinic I think at Firth Park in the 1950s. Were we seriously undernourished after the War? Anyone else remember?

 

I also remember having "malt",thick brown sticky stuff,in a brown jar,it was yummy,we got ours from the school clinic,our school (shiregreen juniors)had it's own clinic where you were issued with malt,and dare i say it "nit lotion".you always knew who had them cause they came out of the clinic clutching a bottle that was usually in a brown paper bag,if i remember rightly the "lotion" smelt horrid.

[bullerboY]

I loved all of it apart from the cod liver oil,never found orange juice that tastes as good to this day.

[louan]

At Western Road School we got a small bottle of milk in the morning and a bottle of orange juice in the afternoon. In winter the milk was sometimes half frozen and in summer gone off. Haven't drunk milk pure since then.

[echo beach]

At Western Road School we got a small bottle of milk in the morning and a bottle of orange juice in the afternoon. In winter the milk was sometimes half frozen and in summer gone off. Haven't drunk milk pure since then.

 

The third of a pint of milk was standard provision for school children up to Thatcher's time. During the mid '50s there must have been a milk shortage for a short time because instead of a bottle of milk we were given a packet of fruit flavoured milk tablets, similar to Horlicks tablets. If you didn't like the flavour given to you then you tried to swap with a mate. louan I'm sure you'd have preferred them to the liquid.

[nosy nellie]

I have never tasted orange juice like the ones we got from the clinic,we also had a chocolate drink I think they called it something like Colact it was lovely.Can anyone else remember it and have I got the name right?

[SILLY]

I loved all of it apart from the cod liver oil,never found orange juice that tastes as good to this day.

 

Me too I used to have my orange juice to take away the taste of the cod liver oil. The malt I used to go and get an extra spoonful when my Mum was not looking. It has taken a long time to work but I am not malnourished now