Okay, I have got to ask. Weren't you all routinely vaccinated for
small pox? Every time I went to a new school I got a new vaccination
(of course while I reacted enough to make it work I never had a scar)
But every one was still getting small pox vaccinations here in the US
Eliz
On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 5:18 PM, Jeff Coleman <Jeff.Coleman(a)ntlworld.com> wrote:
Thanks Huw, I had forgotten the name of it.
I think that a good number of us on this list who were around at the time
still have the inoculation scars.
Jeff
----- Original Message -----
From: "Huw Daniel" <huw(a)ovlhs.co.uk>
To: <glamorgan(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2012 9:20 PM
Subject: Re: [GLA] Smallpox in Wales 1962
> Hi Jeff,
> The small hospital "nearby" was in fact Blackmill Isolation
> Hospital which is now a private nursing home and featured in another
> programme about the Smallpox outbreak (for which I still have the
> inoculation scar!!) a few years ago....
>
> Regards,
>
> Huw
> Secretary, OVLH&HS
>
www.ovlhs.co.uk
>
http://moodle.bridgend.gov.uk/ydderwen/course/view.php?id=210
>
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100003187444024
> @YDderwenPTA
>
>
> On 28/02/2012 20:41, Jeff Coleman wrote:
>> On BBC2 Wales TV tonight there was a half-hour documentary about the
>> smallpox outbreak in Wales in 1962.
>>
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00pk6ft has a clip from it and details.
>>
>> Watch out to see whether it becomes available on BBC i-player.
>>
>> When this was discussed on the list a while back I recall people
>> remembering
>> the Penrhys isolation hospital where the Rhondda cases and the original
>> Cardiff case were treated, and my recollection that a small hospital near
>> Llangeinor was used. I think we were all right, as patients from Glanrhyd
>> hospital, Bridgend who became infected were treated at 'a hospital
>> nearby'.
>>
>> Jeff
>>
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