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Shirley~I,m getting the hang of it

Shirley~I,m getting the hang of it Report 4 Nov 2013 17:29

Not teeth but in the 1940,s after I came home from evacuation we had the nit nurse come around the school . we were always nit free but one time I was called out from class after the visit and given a letter for mum.

Humiliation!!

was sent to the local cleansing station that would take in furniture mattress,s etc to be debugged chemically for bed bugs etc They had a small building with a nurse and other ladies who would wash your hair with delousing shampoo and then comb out each section to remove dead fleas and nits.

Hated the nit nurse coming to the school after that.

Wasnt the one and only time either. Mum had a female lodger who we loved to bits but found she was the source of the problem . She was told clean your head up or go!!

Researching:
Surname Fahse. Germany. Essex .South East London My avatar is one of our wedding photos of 1957

AnninGlos

AnninGlos Report 4 Nov 2013 17:09

Oh Harry that brings back memories. dentists and tonsils both had the horrid mask pushed onto my face and that sickly sweet smell. I was so traumatised by it that in 1961 when I had my first child at the age of 21, I fought off the gas and air and hardly had a whiff. With the second in 67 I flatly refused it.

Researching:
Photo spring Researching Somerset, Dorset, Hampshire, Derbyshire, Staffs, Devon, Glamorganshire. Ingram, Masters, Tamblyn, Knight, Warner, Bate, Allen, Riggs, Dominey, Duffin

Staffs Col

Staffs Col Report 4 Nov 2013 17:07

My milk teeth came through rotten so a visit to the dentist was a fortnightly experience to have them painted with foul smelling chemicals. The one thing it did do though was make me totally unafraid of dentists. (Doctors are a different matter - with the dentist I know where he's going to prod. doctors have oddles of places to choose from :-D )
Fortunately adult teeth have been fine :-)

Harry

Harry Report 4 Nov 2013 17:04

If i asked you what was the biggest cause of children being reported 'missing' in the forties, I don't think you would have a clue.

Today I saw a specialist re a small operation. I chose a local anaesthetic. The paper said they could put you out if you preferred , by putting a mask over your face and giving you gas.

That brought back so many bad experiences from when I was a child having teeth seen to.

The health department and surrounds used to stink of gas. Children would smell it and promptly scarper, then having to be reported to the police as missing a more leisurely procedure than that of today. Of course we never ever lost one for good.

Your favourite? bad experience, or indeed comments on dentists.

Happy days

Marriage is a way of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred.

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