Showing papers by "Margaret Lock published in 2016"
01 Jan 2016
TL;DR: An iron lung, massive and scary, that stood outside the hospital ward where I was taken after the family house was de stroyed by a rocket fallen short of its London target is remembered.
Abstract: ONE VIVID MEMORY I RETAIN FROM WORLD WAR II is of an iron lung, massive and scary, that stood outside the hospital ward where I was taken after the family house was de stroyed by a rocket fallen short of its London target. The iron lung was used, we kids knew all too well, for severe cases of polio, the infectious disease causing the greatest havoc at that time?scarlet fever and diphtheria having been brought largely under control, and tuberculosis confined (although only for the next forty years) to the "working classes" living in cities such as London, Birming ham, and Glasgow. Tales about the iron lung and who had died
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