TB affected the whole community but especially children, and patients could be kept in the hospital for years on end, in isolation. This was particularly devastating for the children separated from their parents - in effect imprisoned and very often ill treated by today's standards.
Displayed repeatedly around the walls of the hospital was the warning 'SPIT IS POISON' a very apt alert to one of the ways of spreading the bacterium, particularly as spitting was a very common habit.
Steps leading to the old servants entrance where the patients were admitted.
Entrance to the morgue situated in the old walled garden.
Book Two - a work in progress. 'Spit is Poison' by Polly Mullaney
It comes as no surprise that Trio Theo find themselves back in Llanbedr - desperately summonsed to the village school. But this is no wholesome rural scene:
' The swing is swaying to and fro; squeak,
squeak, back and forth; a sharp, eerie sound; stark amongst
the bleak
silence.
The atmosphere is desolate, but the swing goes on and on carrying a lone figure sitting upon it. Dusk is creeping up, darkness rising around the school playground.
The atmosphere is desolate, but the swing goes on and on carrying a lone figure sitting upon it. Dusk is creeping up, darkness rising around the school playground.
Gradually, the only light filtering through the heavy air is the moonlight illuminating the scene… yet the swing goes on…to and fro, back and forth. There is a girl on the swing - friendless and abandoned.
Clang! A bell is ringing. Clang! The heavy school door opens slowly and a woman
stands in the dark holding the large bell, tolling it up and down, up and
down. But nobody comes. No children run
from the playground. No voices are shouting and laughing. Nothing.'
Three Kids Gripped By Evil By Polly Mullaney
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