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Smallpox in 1940s Glasgow

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M. Peters from Newfoundland. Posted 24 Jan 2003.
Any information on the above subject would be greatly appreciated. I worked in Glasgow after the war and left in 1950. the outbreak was shortly after the war.

M. Harvey from Burlington, Ontario, Canada. Posted 20 Jun 2005.
I lived at Burnhouse Street, Maryhill opposite Gairbraid School, and can remember the health department going into all the houses and inoculating everyone. A woman living on the street who worked as a conductress on the trams was the person infected. She had become infected, it is said, through handling money on her route, possibly at the docks. I remembering seeing her after she recovered. She wore a mask over her mouth and nose.

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