Heather,
    I've put some additional comments in square brackets against the points
in your post, below.  There are plenty of other readily accessible,
contemporaneous resources for this sort of information, besides the ones
I've cited.
                  Virginia
                   in sunny Brisbane
Heather wrote:
> Midwives and nurses made up the formula in milk kitchens. I think we
> might find a further drop in initiation of bf due to ready-prepared
> formula becoming  widely available at low cost or free to maternity
> units....I think this would be in the mid 60s and early 70s.
* [Here in Brisbane, Queensland, the state's largest maternity hospital
enlarged its milk room to include a further 3 rooms as a Milk Formula Unit
in 1960-61. (Patrick R. The Royal Women's Hospital, Brisbane - the first
fifty years. Brisbane: Boolarong, 1988.)  This is a really major increase,
and eventually I shall follow it up - but not now.]
>
> There was a large rise in hospital
> birth post-war; it was certainly becoming the norm by 1953,
> especially for first births, especially in urban areas.
* [This postwar 'baby boom' was common to a number of countries that were
combatants in, or otherwise affected by, World War II.  Year Books for
various countries or states are good sources of statistics, such as birth
rates.]
> I would guess
> that BMJ survey would show something like 70 per cent initiation in
> hospital/at home then a rapid fall off....what does it say?
* [The paper I mentioned was Part II of the Oxford Child Health Survey,
which did not provide an on-discharge breastfeeding rate, nor a BF
initiation rate.  You might like to check out for yourself Part I, to see if
it answers your question.  My purposes for accessing the article (Part
II)were different, which is why I didn't look for the previous article.  The
references are:
1. Westropp C. BMJ 1953, I:138.
2. Stewart A, Westropp C. Breast-feeding in the Oxford Child Health Survey.
Part II - Comparison of bottle- and breast-fed babies. BMJ 1953 (Aug 8);
II:305-308.]

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