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Tuberculosis
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.
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Queens Park Hospital was a TB sanatorium at one time, in recent years TB was treated at Withnell Hospital near Chorley, it closed in about 1988 when all staff were transferred to a new chest ward at Queens Park Ward "E". TB was virtually eradicated in this country, but has become prevalent again due to mass immigration from countries which still have big problems with the disease
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My mother's younger brother had a wife who died from TB in the 1940s
I was very young at the time and my only memory of her was my standing at her bedroom door and not being allowed to go in. She was laid in bed at the far end of the room. I do not recall the 'grown-ups' talking of her hospitalisation. I think she just lived in isolation at home. It could well have been before the NHS - ie. pre 1948 |
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My granddaughter was tested for T.B. last year after one of her Uni. friends was diagnosed with it. Luckily, she was ok.
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Would she not have been tested/ vaccinated against it when she started her training?
I know we were all tested to see if we had immunity and if you hadn't, you were vaccinated. I was lucky I had built up my own immunity...though I cannot remember being in contact with anyone who had, or had been treated for TB. |
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Think you are getting confused with my daughter, Margaret, who is the nurse. :) The programme for T.B. innoculation was ceased some years ago, so my granddaughter and many of her contempories, never had the benefit of this protection. |
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sorry Kate, my mistake......misread.....duh!
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me dad had it mid 60s, was taken to Withnell Hospital, me along wi all family n friends who had been in contact wi him had to tested.:eek: was hard work at the time, cos me mam was in accy vic wi summat else, so had to look after the younger siblings, to school n feed the greedy pigs etc, was not a great time.
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Thought Park Lee in Blackburn was the local "isolation hospital" , Withnall is a new one on me , wheres it located :confused: :confused:
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pre 1948 tb isolation The National Archives | Search the archives | Hospital Records| Details
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bit of a wander , but kind of related ... there is a Church yard near Guide near to where Beechwood gardens used to be where the penniless dead and unknown from the workhouse were buried (nearest cemetry to QPH in those days I guess Cashy , still waiting for you to tell me where Withnell is (geograpic location /nearest town) :D :D |
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