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Anthony Errington (1778-1848): Illness, Health and Disability
“As in developing countries today, children in large families with poor living conditions and inadequate nutrition, would have been at high risk of dying from a series of interrelated or concurrent...
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Dora R. Hannan (1909-2001): Illness, Health & Disability
“Both my parents were very compassionate people, sometimes when one of us lay awake softly grizzling to ourselves with toothache in the middle of the night, Mum would creep in to us, candlestick in one...
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Mrs RM Downer (b.1884): Illness, Health and Disability
Illness is not an issue discussed in the earlier pages of RM Downer’s memoir. However, when the topic is introduced in the final pages, it quickly becomes a prevalent theme. The majority of RM Downer’s...
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Mary Laura Triggle (1888-1985): Illness, Health and Disability
‘So there again mother got the first folding invalid chair’ (21) Mary’s memoir recalls how her parents faced illness and disability throughout their whole lives. This affected both their own personal...
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Frank George Marling (1863-1954): Illness, Health and Disability
[…] I was rather a delicate child. It must have been when I was not very well that one morning before I was out of bed Father brought me up some castor oil in a cup of tea! I could not get it down and...
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Charles William Esam-Carter: Introductory Blog Post
Charles William Esam-Carter was born in Thornton Heath, Surrey in 1899 and was the oldest of two children. The family did not stay in the same place for very long, often moving around. He does not...
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Charles William Esam-Carter: Illness, Health and Disability Part Two
‘In 1871, there were 11,518 persons who were described as either deaf and dumb or simply dumb, about one in 1,972 of the population.’ Despite quite a large group of people affected by such a...
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Charles William Esam-Carter: Illness, Health and Disability
There is an element of foreshadowing to the birth of Charles’ sister, Muriel that is, in some respects, sinister. He recalls overhearing his father speaking with the doctor in the garden, unaware that...
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Annie Lord (b.1899): Disabilities – Part One
“I was Born deaf in one ear, But was never found out those days till late in life, even at school I did not have a chance…” Lord, p: 1 As a child, Annie frequently struggled at school because she was...
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Annie Lord (b. 1899): Disabilities – Part Two
“I was only married 2 years when I found out he was a cripple from 1914 War an ex[-]serviceman man mind you he kept it most from me War wounds in Head and Leg…” Lord, p: 3 As mentioned in my previous...
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May Jones: Illness, Health and Disability
“Misses let her go home,” if she lives she will be either a cripple or an imbecile,” Mother said I believe that where there is life there is hope, she then took matters in her own hands, she had (?)...
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Edward Cain (1891-1978): Health
Edward Cain’s memoir shows that his family had endured some sad times. On the last page of the transcript (Reminiscences from the life story of Mr. Edward Cain M.B.E), he lists the family members that...
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Jean Court: Illness, Health and Disability
Within Jean Court’s memoir, health and illness are two main themes. She speaks of her family’s brushes with death as well as her own struggles as a child. Her father passed away from a stroke when Jean...
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Mary Bradbury (b. circa 1900): Illness, Health and Disability
For all the hard labour endured, and all the great memories Mary reminisces on, she experienced health problems when she was a small child. This included several accidents where she “senselessly risked...
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Ken Hayter (b. 1940): Illness & Health
‘I’m getting inoculated against dip- dip something or other, dip- dip- diphtheria, that’s it. Diphtheria’ (102) The above quotation is taken from the ‘Tomorrow’ chapter within the Toxteth Tales...
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Pauline Wiltshire: Disability
“Although I am disabled, I have a lot of sense and understanding. I can lead a normal life. I can do anything.” (29) Disability has evolved as a subject of conversation only over the past century, and...
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Annie Lord (b.1899): Disabilities – Part One
“I was Born deaf in one ear, But was never found out those days till late in life, even at school I did not have a chance…” Lord, p: 1 As a child, Annie frequently struggled at school because she was...
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Charles William Esam-Carter: Illness, Health and Disability Part Two
‘In 1871, there were 11,518 persons who were described as either deaf and dumb or simply dumb, about one in 1,972 of the population.’ Despite quite a large group of people affected by such a...
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Fred Baxter (1908-1997): Illness and Health
“I could live for another 10 years or die the next morning.” (p.30) West Suffolk Hospital Nurses, May 1921. At various points in his life, Fred experienced ill health, as a result of the “various...
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Ken Hayter (b. 1940): Illness & Health
‘I’m getting inoculated against dip- dip something or other, dip- dip- diphtheria, that’s it. Diphtheria’ (102) The above quotation is taken from the ‘Tomorrow’ chapter within the Toxteth Tales...
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