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Originally Posted by Tina

Hello everyone. Can you can you local history buffs shed any light on how the town dealt with TB in the early 1900's/late 1800's? I am an avid family history researcher and one section of my family from wayyyy back lost two sons and two daughters (in their twenties) to TB within a four year span, one after the other. One of those was married, but census shows her having moved out of the marital home and into a lodging house. I wonder if it was to protect her family ? The adress of the lodging house was Stonefold Haslingden.

Hundreds if not thousnads of soldiers contracted T.B., during the first World war, caused by conditions in the trenches, most of their service records show P.U.O., as the first entry, usually at a C.C.S., their first hospital diagnosis would then identify it as either T.B., Bronchitis, or Influenza, and send them to the appropriate hospital for treatment.

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