The help was mainly with the layette (84-3 % of the married and 72-8 % of the unmarried).
Nor do we make emergency grants to cover the cost of layettes, perambulators and cots.
That would help very considerably, because it would help the family to buy the pram and the layette and the clothes.
The whole of the layout, the layette, the pram and the clothes, and everything else, have to be bought in one lump sum.
He took the £25 maternity grant and tried to ascertain the cost of buying a layette.
Another selection which covers nappies, a push-chair, bottles, a basic layette and so on, which has been sent to me today, brings us up to over £200.
A layette, baby bottles, a plastic bath tub, and other accessories were available.
Today layette is often used to identify a baby clothing section of a store.
