"In Victorian times sick people would have been sent to isolation hospitals. Looking at old maps of my area I can see many of them. That’s the usual way isn’t it? What happened to them?"
More recently than that. My Dad had TB in the fifties and was sent to a place in Worcestershire that looked like tiers of cricket pavilions with open fronts, really cold, on the basis that fresh air was the best hope. Which it probably was then. Now 70 years later we have a plague where all we have is the same thing.
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