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From blog Diary of a Vintage Girl | Vintage Fashion & Lifestyle
Welcome Home (The King's Sanatorium)
It's time for another delve into English Edwardian history for The King's Ginger. This time, we're going back to a darker time, when tuberculosis was a scourge. Men, women, children, rich or poor - no one was safe, and a cure was not yet known. But the luckier (read: wealthier) victims of consumption did have more of a chance, thanks to a state of the art sanatorium that bore the King's name... Back in my teens, all I really knew about TB was that the leading lady in La Boheme had it and I got a very painful BCG inoculation against it. But in the early 1800s, TB was the cause of an astonishing twenty-five percent of all deaths in England. By the turn...
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