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My own grandmother (my mums mother) died of diphtheria in 1933;...pretty awful way to die evidently,….the good ol’days eh.
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Anyone on here remember getting the smallpox vaccine. Did people really buy cages to cover the site as it was so painful.
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The Polio jab was the big one when I was a kid
It left a scar on your arm which I thought lasted forever but I've just checked and I can't see it now.. I think we had a lot less jabs in the 1950s but the needles were thicker so they hurt a lot more............. ![]() |
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I know I had it because my mother said so but I can't remember it and there's no scar. I do remember the polio sugar cube but probably because we'd been fed horror stories about the injection and got the cube instead.
Interestingly while googling when the small pox injection was fazed out I came across this which I hadn't heard of before "Withdrawal of smallpox vaccine 'contributed to spread of HIV'". |
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The Polio jab was the big one when I was a kid
It left a scar on your arm which I thought lasted forever but I've just checked and I can't see it now.. I think we had a lot less jabs in the 1950s but the needles were thicker so they hurt a lot more............. ![]() |
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I've just remembered! I have a circular scar just under my left boob. Back in 1947 our doctor thought it would be a good idea to vaccinate girls in that place so that it wouldn't show as they matured! Hey ho, she was right!
When my Dad was posted to Cyprus back in the fifties we all had to have a TABT inoculation. I think it stood for Typhoid Anti Bacteria and Tetanus. OMG, I can still feel the pain now! It was horrendous! |
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Aged 5 and you're not looking at needles, you scream your head off instead as it sinks into your skin. Still remember the time, seeing the doctors in their whites, kids in rows waiting their turn. It was painful no matter what she said, but once out you could breathe again, but having to return for more was gruesome. -shudder-
When I was a kid there was a young girl who lived across the road from me who’d survived Polio (infantile paralysis) but she was terribly deformed and could just about manage to move around very slowly (and painfully) on crutches. It was a horrible, cruel and often fatal disease;….little wonder pre 1960’s parents were absolutely terrified of it. A few ‘needle injections’ and most of us have been spared all manner of hideous diseases that were commonplace not that many years ago; …nothing short of miraculous really. |
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I've just remembered! I have a circular scar just under my left boob. Back in 1947 our doctor thought it would be a good idea to vaccinate girls in that place so that it wouldn't show as they matured! Hey ho, she was right!
When my Dad was posted to Cyprus back in the fifties we all had to have a TABT inoculation. I think it stood for Typhoid Anti Bacteria and Tetanus. OMG, I can still feel the pain now! It was horrendous! Under the heading of Typhoid, Paratyphoid, A&B Inoculations, I had 1st dose and 2nd dose,9 days apart, but no booster, in 1951. Sorry for hijacking the Thread, but have never studied this booklet that much before. Under the heading of Diphtheria, BCG, Whooping Cough and other Immunisations. the doc was busy for 4 days in July of 1950, and 1 day each of Feb and March, same year of Di 5g. Hope the UNHCR paid her well ![]() ![]()
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Some confusion on here, not surprising as we were only kids at the time.
I thought it was big needle on the upper arm for TB, drop on a sugarlump for polio and a prick test for smallpox. No lump then you get the injection. |
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Anyone on here remember getting the smallpox vaccine. Did people really buy cages to cover the site as it was so painful.
Never heard about cages Cages?
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However horrible the vaccinations were they were nothing compared to the diseases they prevented.
When I was a kid there was a young girl who lived across the road from me who’d survived Polio (infantile paralysis) but she was terribly deformed and could just about manage to move around very slowly (and painfully) on crutches. It was a horrible, cruel and often fatal disease;….little wonder pre 1960’s parents were absolutely terrified of it. A few ‘needle injections’ and most of us have been spared all manner of hideous diseases that were commonplace not that many years ago; …nothing short of miraculous really. My old boss had Polio in one of his hands, but he had learned to do things one handedly, and we also helped him when he needed help, so I'm not ignorant re diseases, and deformities in others, and have a lot of compassion for people, and do what I can for them. |
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Some confusion on here, not surprising as we were only kids at the time.
I thought it was big needle on the upper arm for TB, drop on a sugarlump for polio and a prick test for smallpox. No lump then you get the injection. according to wiki the oral 'vaccine' for polio wasn't developed until 1961 so us old folk who had it in the 1950s would have had a jab |
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Some confusion on here, not surprising as we were only kids at the time.
I thought it was big needle on the upper arm for TB, drop on a sugarlump for polio and a prick test for smallpox. No lump then you get the injection. (??) sure I can remember which injection was which but I wouldn’t put money on it;….the various combinations, real or imagined, are probably endless.
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I had the smallpox vaccine as a child.
Never heard about cages Cages?![]() |
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I remember having all sorts of injections when I was a kid;…our little upper arms were like dart boards
;…. Smallpox, Diphtheria, Tetanus, Pertussis, Measles, Mumps, Rubella and TB;..I think the Polio vaccine was taken in liquid form ???,… was that the one you got on a sugar lump?When I was a kid, polio vaccine was given by injection but it was given on a sugar lump when my brother was born 10 years later. |
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But at age 5 you don't know, and only feel the pain of the needle, and being scared of it. I didn't know I was born with a handicap until I was an adult, and no one ever knew I had it. It was discovered by chance during an exploratory op, when they found it via my DNA in London. It did explain my early years development, but I was lucky in many respects re education, and it hasn't held me back because of that.
My old boss had Polio in one of his hands, but he had learned to do things one handedly, and we also helped him when he needed help, so I'm not ignorant re diseases, and deformities in others, and have a lot of compassion for people, and do what I can for them. The vaccinations were always done in her office and she’d personally supervise every one. Any child who cried got a rap on the knuckles with her ever present wooden-ruler; ….I think she learned her trade in a Victorian workhouse.
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Think I'm too young for the smallpox, thought that was around in the middle ages.
![]() I assume from the thread the ubiquitous scar left on our arms is for Polio or TB, I do remember getting a sugar lump at some point. ![]() I thought that smallpox vax was still done until the late 60s, maybe even very early 70s. I'm sure my brother had a smallpox shot. The left arm scar is usually from smallpox. Polio shots didn't tend to leave scars. |
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I guess it depends on when you had them
according to wiki the oral 'vaccine' for polio wasn't developed until 1961 so us old folk who had it in the 1950s would have had a jab |
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However horrible the vaccinations were they were nothing compared to the diseases they prevented.
When I was a kid there was a young girl who lived across the road from me who’d survived Polio (infantile paralysis) but she was terribly deformed and could just about manage to move around very slowly (and painfully) on crutches. It was a horrible, cruel and often fatal disease;….little wonder pre 1960’s parents were absolutely terrified of it. A few ‘needle injections’ and most of us have been spared all manner of hideous diseases that were commonplace not that many years ago; …nothing short of miraculous really. That's all I wanted to say, ok |
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With every vaccine at our school, the rumors were usually that the needle was 15ft long
I remember one with 6 needles that was rumored to be administered with an electric drill.
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With every vaccine at our school, the rumors were usually that the needle was 15ft long
I remember one with 6 needles that was rumored to be administered with an electric drill.Lol. The rumour at my school was about the BCG test: that allegedly involved being punctured with 6 needles simultaneously, and if you were one of the unlucky ones that reacted and had to have a TB vax, that was supposed to be even worse. Thankfully, I was off school with tonsillitis when the tests were done, so I never had one. |
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To be honest I was always more scared of our headmistress, Mrs Thornton.
The vaccinations were always done in her office and she’d personally supervise every one. Any child who cried got a rap on the knuckles with her ever present wooden-ruler; ….I think she learned her trade in a Victorian workhouse. ![]() Respect goes out the window. Maybe your Mrs T could do with a mouse or two ![]()
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With every vaccine at our school, the rumors were usually that the needle was 15ft long
I remember one with 6 needles that was rumored to be administered with an electric drill.![]() No wonder we were scarred (and scared!) for life.
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Anyone on here remember getting the smallpox vaccine. Did people really buy cages to cover the site as it was so painful.
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I think you're getting smallpox mixed up with the Black Death.
![]() I thought that smallpox vax was still done until the late 60s, maybe even very early 70s. I'm sure my brother had a smallpox shot. The left arm scar is usually from smallpox. Polio shots didn't tend to leave scars. |
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Cages?
;…. Smallpox, Diphtheria, Tetanus, Pertussis, Measles, Mumps, Rubella and TB;..I think the Polio vaccine was taken in liquid form ???,… was that the one you got on a sugar lump?