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####yes lew that is correct ..in the village we are very lucky i can ring and get an appointment the same day ..that is all the villagers ..i realise in shields for example it can be not the case .....down to numbers i suppose .....ie no immigrants here ...that helps no doubtQuote:
Originally Posted by Lewis McColl
Here is a copy of the Receipt for my birth,
The Maternity Hospital was owned by the Town, The Mayor, Aldermen and Burgesses of Bolton.
Dad had to pay Ten Shillings Deposit and afterwards after another £2, 10 shillings,
Cost £1, 15 shillings a week in hospital and there for 10 days.
SO it was £3 to have a baby then More than a weeks wages in 1935.
Today they are having babies like shelling peas, it would cost a fortune today if they had to pay.
#33, Capt', My mother in law's first born died during a home birth 1946, so when her second child was due [hubby] 1949 my father in law insisted on a private hospital. All went well but due to him being self employed [greyhound trainer/owner] she had to wait for a win before being released.:)
Hi Marian, I remember mum telling me that before the war people sometimes had to sell bits of their furniture to pay for a doctor, hard to imagine now. Cheers JFCQuote:
Originally Posted by Marian Gray
My grandmother used to relate a tale that in 1946 she sent for the doctor for one of her children who would have been in their 20s when the doctor arrived from the local town he wanted half a crown before he would even see the girl 2/6 is 12 and a half pence in modern money they went back to local farm house who would the only phone in the village and rang a doctor from another rear nearby town he came looked at the girl did whatever he had to do and then when he was satisfied he wanted is half a crown , but this doctor had a choice not only had he treated my aunt before he'd been paid but he had a club and I think that they all had to pay a penny per person per week to his Club and he would come out and treat them free of charge I'm not sure how it worked as my old ground has been dead nearly 60 years and I just remembered it as a child being born in the days that the NHS was still a fledgling service that the only people who are moaning about it was the doctors
jim the scanners are now working up to 11pm if you can get there i had a phone call at 8pm to see if i could attend i did no problem that was a couple of years ago the end of this month its been 3 years since the cancer op i had the op on the anniversary of my mothers death so it was a bit scary i know quite a lot about the NHS my daughter in law is a sister? right feet up for a couple of hours peggy duty done 14 feed and galley spotless still got it roast today with all the trimmings ?:p:p jp
When I was a lad before the war, a neighbour, Mrs Bolger, would act as a Midwife if any neighbours were having a baby, and if anyone died in the street she would come and lay them out. No charge, Always heard the cry, "Send for Mrs Bolger". so someone was either coming into the world or departing.
I cannot see neighbours today doing that.
Another thing then, was we had no phones, or car, so in emergency or accident could not phone for an ambulance.
My 8 years old cousin Richard, fell on a spike in the garden in 1942, he was bleeding from a severed artery. my Aunty Elsie had to carry him for over a mile to the hospital, but too late, he bled to death. she walked home alone.
and today they complain
And today they whinge, Brian great posts on this thread !!! always a Barb ?? why?
John I attend the same hospital as you do over the cancer I was there two weeks ago over a scan I had and the nodules are getting a bit bigger so the doctor decided to send me to the Royal for what is known as a PET scan for a better picture.That was on a Thursday morning,I was only in the house for an hour after coming back from Broad Green when the phone went and I was invited to the Royal on the Saturday by the Dept Of Nuclear Medicine to come in for a scan,how quick is that.Quote:
Originally Posted by John Pruden
Regards.
Jim.b.
jim the PET scan you are radio active{i told them that's the most active i have been for ages} if you are under broad green you are in the best place that's where i have had 2 opps far better than anywhere else including clatterbridge{my opinion only} if any were will sort you out broad green will cancer is not the frightener it used to be just do as you are told you have to and i hope everything goes well for you they are the best there is i am under MR PHOLIS they call him your majesty there one of the top cancer specialist in the country good luck jim.. jp