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
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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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
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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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.
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.
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.
sorry Kate, my mistake......misread.....duh!
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.
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.
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.it was in Withnell steely, was a pig to get too on the bus, that i do remember.Thought Park Lee in Blackburn was the local "isolation hospital" , Withnall is a new one on me , wheres it located
think its long closed now?
pre 1948 tb isolation The National Archives | Search the archives | Hospital Records| Details
how did yeh remember that un? i couldn't.yep ,thanks thats the one I was thinking of
how did yeh remember that un? i couldn't.
my grandparents and my Dad were 'pure' Blackburner's/Little Arroders , and Park Lee was allways referred to as the Isolation/Fever hospital , bit like Queens Park Hosp. was allways known as the workhouse ......remember as a kid going up to Queens Park Hosp. from the Darwen St bridge area , there used/maybe still is ... a big stone wall on the left hand side where they used to say folks used to hide their stuff before going to the workhouse , the place had the reputation amongst the older folks that if you were in an Ambulance and it was heading for Queens Park your days were numbered and if it was headed to the Infirmary there was a good chance of recovery (true) ..... should mention this was during the 50s , hopefully things have improved
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)
There ya go SJmy grandparents and my Dad were 'pure' Blackburner's/Little Arroders , and Park Lee was allways referred to as the Isolation/Fever hospital , bit like Queens Park Hosp. was allways known as the workhouse ......remember as a kid going up to Queens Park Hosp. from the Darwen St bridge area , there used/maybe still is ... a big stone wall on the left hand side where they used to say folks used to hide their stuff before going to the workhouse , the place had the reputation amongst the older folks that if you were in an Ambulance and it was heading for Queens Park your days were numbered and if it was headed to the Infirmary there was a good chance of recovery (true) ..... should mention this was during the 50s , hopefully things have improved
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)
Withnell - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
I was actually lucky they shut the place about 2 years after I moved back to Ossy in 1986, when it closed it was the critical care unit for chest patients, I was admitted to the new version at Queens Park in 1988, phew was I lucky or should I say my relatives who would have had to travel to visit, it was a bitch of a place to get to if you had no transportThanks Jaysay , never heard of the place and only 5 mile from Blackburn
Changing the disease slightly, can any of you lot recall the dysentry outbreak in Accy sometime in the mid-1950's? I'm far too young to have been around at the time and was told about it by a medical historian about 10 years ago. I know it's normally a disease associated with the aftermath of third world floods and earthquakes but I doubt if Hyndburn was then third world (although some parts like Ossy now are).
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