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Thread #66021   Message #2772464
Posted By: GUEST,OldNicKilby
24-Nov-09 - 07:09 AM
Thread Name: Songs of the 1919 Flu Pandemic
Subject: RE: Songs of the 1919 Flu Pandemic
It wasnt just the people who died who suffered there were many that survived who had awful lives.
When I bought my house in 1966 from an old chap I thought he was a batchelor.
. In 1970 he told me that it was his Golden Wedding Aniversary and that his wife had had Spanish flu 6 weeks after they had married in 1920.The flu had affected her brain and that she had been in the local mental hospital ever since. Annie was still there in 1984.
Just a small matter of 64 years on a Ward.