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Living standards over the period would show a diametrically opposed graph - which is no coincidence.

I would have been vaccinated at school with the sugar lump around 1960.
Aye me too lad, I remember the sugar cube, bit later tho, bout 64/65, before I started school.
Didn't start school til 67.
Me dear old mum was a vaccination fan girl, if there was one, I was jabbed! :D
 
Aye me too there, sugar cubes were all t’ rage when I were a nipper.
May hap’ we all caught chicken pox, my old mam used to take us round t’ neighbours t’ share wit their nippers.
They were tough times I can tell thee, but not as tough as writing in this style.
Practice me thinks, practice.
 
She can't have been as bad as our primary school playground assistant and dinner lady Mrs Moore, whose brutal approach to hygiene and behavioural standards was a local by-word .
In appearance and personality she resembled a combination of Catherine de Medici and Nora Batty and her refusal to stand any nonsense was legenary.

Of stout build, with a rolling bow-legged gait and the upper body strength of a Russian weight lifter, many a negligent child, myself included, who had failed her clean hands inspection in the school dinner queue, was grasped by the ear and dragged to the cloakroom to do the job again properly under supervision with the ruthless application of a hard scrubbing brush and carbolic soap.
However, no one caught polio so it must have worked.
 
She can't have been as bad as our primary school playground assistant and dinner lady Mrs Moore, whose brutal approach to hygiene and behavioural standards was a local by-word .
In appearance and personality she resembled a combination of Catherine de Medici and Nora Batty and her refusal to stand any nonsense was legenary.

Of stout build, with a rolling bow-legged gait and the upper body strength of a Russian weight lifter, many a negligent child, myself included, who had failed her clean hands inspection in the school dinner queue, was grasped by the ear and dragged to the cloakroom to do the job again properly under supervision with the ruthless application of a hard scrubbing brush and carbolic soap.
However, no one caught polio so it must have worked.
We called our playground assistant / dinner time mafia ladies Big Hitler and Mini Hitler 🙋‍♀️🙋‍♀️
 
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