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Von

Von Report 15 Jan 2020 20:57

Maybe Pat - who knows what the perceived wisdom was ;-)

Different times

PatinCyprus

PatinCyprus Report 15 Jan 2020 20:56

No countryside at Goscote Ann

PatinCyprus

PatinCyprus Report 15 Jan 2020 20:55

Perhaps the pollution made them cough and get rid of it Von :-S

**Ann**

**Ann** Report 15 Jan 2020 20:54

Pat...I think they purpose built in countryside :-D

Von

Von Report 15 Jan 2020 20:53

Yep - how does that work Pat :-S

**Ann**

**Ann** Report 15 Jan 2020 20:52

I have just looked it up...Halkyn to Llangywfan (where dad was) is only 26 mins in the car. In 1961 with no car or bus routes it was a nightmare to get there
:-(

Von

Von Report 15 Jan 2020 20:52

They worried about the spread of infection Jem not realising they were traumatising the poor children :-(

PatinCyprus

PatinCyprus Report 15 Jan 2020 20:51

Fresh air was always prescribed for TB.

Loved to know how they did it at Goscote Isolation Hospital in Walsall with all our foundries :-S

JemimaFawr

JemimaFawr Report 15 Jan 2020 20:50

Aw no Von! :-0 :-0

Von

Von Report 15 Jan 2020 20:49

Yes. My sister was quarantined when she had scarlet fever and they burnt her teddy.

**Ann**

**Ann** Report 15 Jan 2020 20:49

They were Von...the image has stayed in my mind all these years..I can still see his lovely little face and often wondered did he get fully well again :-( :-(

I remember making the trip to go see dad and he was on the verandah in his bed :-D :-D :-D

JemimaFawr

JemimaFawr Report 15 Jan 2020 20:49

It is strange now to think of people dying of things so easily cured by antibiotics now

PatinCyprus

PatinCyprus Report 15 Jan 2020 20:48

Parents not allowed to see them for a couple of days after an op and only at visiting times when they could.

JemimaFawr

JemimaFawr Report 15 Jan 2020 20:47

They had to be away from their families for a very long time in those hospitals didn't they! :-(

PatinCyprus

PatinCyprus Report 15 Jan 2020 20:47

The good old days :-S

Von

Von Report 15 Jan 2020 20:46

I have photographs of them lying in hospital beds outside :-0 :-0

Von

Von Report 15 Jan 2020 20:45

Scarey machines **Ann**

My mother nursed children who had TB and polio

**Ann**

**Ann** Report 15 Jan 2020 20:45

Oh don’t say that Jem
:-0 :-0

PatinCyprus

PatinCyprus Report 15 Jan 2020 20:43

:-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D well remembered Jem ;-)

**Ann**

**Ann** Report 15 Jan 2020 20:42

Von...I remember having my tonsils out in the cottage hospital and there was a boy in an iron lung in our ward..it scared me to death
:-( :-(

Thelodger just called back...you were correct Jem :-D :-D