Isolated Patients Mucked in and Helped Each Other ; It Was a Complete Shock to Kath Hemsley When She Found Herself Diagnosed with Tb Just After Getting Married in 1950. She Recalls Here How She Coped with Being Sent to Draycott Isolation Hospital. Pat Parkin Reports.

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It was a complete shock to Kath Hemsley when she found herself diagnosed with TB just after getting married in 1950. She recalls here how she coped with being sent to Draycott Isolation Hospital. Pat Parkin reports.

Returning from her honeymoon back in 1950, Kath Hemsley was shocked to discover a mass X-ray check had shown she had a shadow on her lung.

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Isolated Patients Mucked in and Helped Each Other ; It Was a Complete Shock to Kath Hemsley When She Found Herself Diagnosed with Tb Just After Getting Married in 1950. She Recalls Here How She Coped with Being Sent to Draycott Isolation Hospital. Pat Parkin Reports.

Nearly 60 years ago, when tuberculosis was the great feared disease, that meant being promptly sent for iso...

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