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Folkestone local history book:
Infected Folkestone by Sue Sheppard MA
GROUND BREAKING NEW BOOK How a long forgotten hospital sheds new light on Folkestone's Victorian Heyday. THE PLOT : The true story of how a town's fortunes became interwined with that of its 'infectious disease' hospital, known locally as the Sanatorium. THE FEAR: just one more bout of infectious disease could ruin Folkestones' reputation as a elite watering hole.They needed somewhere to isolate visitors suffering from infectious disease. THE HEROINES: The Sanatorium was run by 'career' Fever Nurses;women, who put their entire lives on the line to save, initially the life of wealthy visitors and later the ordinary poor people living in the towns slums.SOME PERIODS COVERED
Victoria & Edwardian Heyday of Folkestone 'Fashionable Folkesotne' and the fear of Infection
World War One: Belguim refugees and Canadian soldiers, hardships of 1917
Post 1918 Spanish Flu epidemic
Inter War: poverty and Health Changes
World War Two Housing refugee children, providing quarters for retreating Dunkirk soldiers
Post War: Building on World War Two medical progress esp Vaccination against Diphtheria, Creation of the NHS
Sanatorium building derelict and ultimately pulled down for St Mary's School and Phillipa House
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