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maryrose
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My dad had TB and it was during the 1940s. He had to go to a sanitorium in Bromsgrove and had new pioneering treatment. I think they called it a fresh air clinic as he told me that they had all of the windows open. He recovered from it but he has passed now. Im not surprised as if you read about how tough it was living in the court yards and back to back houses it must have been really hard. Fortunately, Birmingham during the industrial revolution was classed as one of the most sanitary of the Cities as it had very good drainage compared to a lot of places. This still didnt stop people from living in hard conditions with one bog to 5 houses. They even had men who worked at night who would be literally called s... shovellers. These people would go round at night followed by a kid with a lamp and they would clean out the dung from the privvies and sell it on to local farmers.Im 40 now and im so glad we have bog roll as they had newspaper on string. Can you imagine that these days ? If it aint got lotions and patterns on it people wont use it. Izal at school was bad enough lol. :