yg blogs about the recent demolition of the building that once housed the Bukit Panjang Child Welfare Clinic, one of the busiest rural clinics in post-war Singapore.
But its relative importance to the rural community was not what made the Bukit Panjang Child Welfare Clinic significant in the local landscape. More importantly, it was a monument to community effort:
the bukit panjang child welfare clinic was opened in august 1950. built on land provided by the government and at a cost of $32 000 – the money was raised and contributed by the residents of bukit panjang district – it was hailed as a monument of the communal efforts of the people of bukit panjang.
on 11 september 1951, the straits times reported “the bukit panjang clinic was the only one in singapore which has been built on funds subscribed by the local people”.
The building was later vacated and taken over by an education centre, and now it has been demolished to make way for the new Downtown line. Find out more about the Bukit Panjang Child Welfare Clinic in yg’s post here.
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