Stirling fever hospital

[harrow]

Yes I found that one, thanks. On the register of death it also mentioned the 'hydropathic' at Dumblane. If this is now known as the Dunblane Hydro Hotel I actually stayed there on a visit to Scotland.

[apanderson]

I don't think Dunblane Hydro Hotel and the Spa were one and the same place although I stand to be corrected!!

From what I'm led to believe, the Spa was in Bridge of Allan.

Anne

[harrow]

Brilliant photos, thank you very much

[kathy-9]

Would the Stirling fever hospital have housed those with scarlet fever?  Kathy

[DDJJake]

Yes,
I was a child-patient in Bannockburn Fever Hospital with Scarlet Fever in  Autumn 1946 ! Took ages to recover ... bedridden for about 8 weeks, and had to learn to walk again Och !...  but I did manage to walk [sorta!] and get my present from Santa though :-)

[apanderson]

Awwww!

You poor wee soul! 

Anne

[DDJJake]

Ay .... A peer wee sowl I wis Anne.
Het Kaolin poltices chynged fower times a day and I didna see ma mammy or ma daddy 'cept threw an oot-ben windae ilk Sunday fur ow'r twa months ...
Aathegither noo ! Aaaaagh ! ..... fur the wee laddie o' ainly sax an a hauf years.

[kathy-9]

Good grief.  Did you come across  Mary McMaster or Stasia McMaster in your time there?

[DDJJake]

Hi Kathy,
There were only other wee boys in the ward I was in, so I don't know. There was probably a ladies'/girls' ward nearby ... but I could barely walk even when I left the hospital in January.
We with Scarlet Fever were on the left wing looking down over Bannockburn, while on the right wing were the diptheria patients.
No penicillin for us then ... just isolation and nature's and nurses' care  ... casualities from the war had priority claim on penicillin.
Aye grateful that I survived ... but I nearly didn't make it !
John