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One memory of being at school is the free milk we were given in third of a pint bottles. On cold mornings the milk was placed by the stove-pipe fire to take the chill of it. One day, my teacher loaned my cup to another pupil and when I told Mum, she went to the school and complained being that she didn鈥檛 want any diseases to be passed on to me. In those days, we did not have the medicines that were available many years later. One common complaint was TB, another was Rickets, a disease of the bones that affected young children

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