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Theobald "Toby" Barrett Diary, 1925

Theobald Toby Barrett 1925 Diary 31.pdf

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got back with our load. Frank and I went down this after noon to get my load, and as I wanted to get some feed at Billy Langs and as we were delayed a little by helping Marjorie Gamble at the coal office try to figure out a Cross-word puzzle, and Frank forgetting his coat and having to go back to the coal shed for it from Aunty's it was fairly late when we got home. We put on a few chunks of the old horse chestnut tree at Aunty's and I brought some of them over here. Down at Aunty's they are very tired and very troubled. Poor Lila is sinking rapidly. She was delirious last night. To-day she was resting comfortably and slept most of the time. Her temperature <s>quickl</s> fluctuates quickly & sharply rising to 102° and then dropping to below normal. Dr Cook says this is due to the disease attacking new spots. He says the tuberculosis is now all through her system. He asked Aunty Alice if they would like another doctor. She said she was satisfied with him but asked him if he would like another. He said "I think the poor child has suffered enough at the hands of doctors." It is true and we can't help thinking "If only she had never gone to that Hospital." It is hard not to think bitterly of an institution which professes to do so much for the relief of suffering humanity and
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got back with our load. Frank and I went down this after noon to get my load, and as I wanted to get some feed at Billy Langs and as we were delayed a little by helping Marjorie Gamble at the coal office try to figure out a Cross-word puzzle, and Frank forgetting his coat and having to go back to the coal shed for it from Aunty's it was fairly late when we got home. We put on a few chunks of the old horse chestnut tree at Aunty's and I brought some of them over here. Down at Aunty's they are very tired and very troubled. Poor Lila is sinking rapidly. She was delirious last night. To-day she was resting comfortably and slept most of the time. Her temperature <s>quickl</s> fluctuates quickly & sharply rising to 102° and then dropping to below normal. Dr Cook says this is due to the disease attacking new spots. He says the tuberculosis is now all through her system. He asked Aunty Alice if they would like another doctor. She said she was satisfied with him but asked him if he would like another. He said "I think the poor child has suffered enough at the hands of doctors." It is true and we can't help thinking "If only she had never gone to that Hospital." It is hard not to think bitterly of an institution which professes to do so much for the relief of suffering humanity and support its plea for public support by giving free treatment to ailing paupers and all sorts of human scum and yet will take the finest type of girls like Lila in the best of health and with overwork and lack of proper food allow them to become the victims of a preventable disease then operate on them for an experiment and finally send them home to die. It's hard to believe but it's true.
 
 
support its plea for public support by giving free treatment to ailing paupers and all sorts of human scum and yet wull take the finest type of girls like Lila in the best of health and with overwork and lack of proper food allow them to become the vixtims of a preventabkle disease then ipwerate on them for am experoiment and finally send them home to die. It's hard to believe but it's true.
 

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got back with our load. Frank and I went down this after noon to get my load, and as I wanted to get some feed at Billy Langs and as we were delayed a little by helping Marjorie Gamble at the coal office try to figure out a Cross-word puzzle, and Frank forgetting his coat and having to go back to the coal shed for it from Aunty's it was fairly late when we got home. We put on a few chunks of the old horse chestnut tree at Aunty's and I brought some of them over here. Down at Aunty's they are very tired and very troubled. Poor Lila is sinking rapidly. She was delirious last night. To-day she was resting comfortably and slept most of the time. Her temperature quickl fluctuates quickly & sharply rising to 102° and then dropping to below normal. Dr Cook says this is due to the disease attacking new spots. He says the tuberculosis is now all through her system. He asked Aunty Alice if they would like another doctor. She said she was satisfied with him but asked him if he would like another. He said "I think the poor child has suffered enough at the hands of doctors." It is true and we can't help thinking "If only she had never gone to that Hospital." It is hard not to think bitterly of an institution which professes to do so much for the relief of suffering humanity and support its plea for public support by giving free treatment to ailing paupers and all sorts of human scum and yet will take the finest type of girls like Lila in the best of health and with overwork and lack of proper food allow them to become the victims of a preventable disease then operate on them for an experiment and finally send them home to die. It's hard to believe but it's true.

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