Posted by Ian E-N on December 06, 2006 at 14:54:01 from 148.88.192.240 user IanEN.
In Reply to: Re: cooking in Sir Garnet, not Mrs. Dixon's kitchen posted by Peter Ceresole on December 06, 2006 at 14:07:09:
my mum used to to be worried about it and we got tested milk from a modern village dairy. She had her reasons- she'd had TB as a child and spent six months in a sanatorium.
ditto my father, well five years in all strapped down to the bed, being treated for TB of the spine at Ethel Hedley Orthopaedic Hospital for Children, Calgarth Park on the NE shore of Windermere.
early 1930s were early days of spinal surgery, then sleeping outside on the balcony trying to freeze the disease out of him. Parents visiting once a month, sometimes with new books about children in the Lake District .......