Refine Search

WE How Synge Set the stage for Beckett

... bumping lown the social scale, a process given an extra nudge by Jack Synge, the future dramatist’s father, dying during a smallpox epidemic when his youniest son was barely a year old. The children were raised by the widowed Kathleen, an austere woman ...

Published: Saturday 18 March 2000
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 782 | Page: 52 | Tags: none

1€ )X re to isolate covered from r such places ks” who made r were those d doctors like who,

... or otherwise > of smallpox”. led this Act in pulsory for all ated before the Public vacci-1 to administer iised religious to the Act and ption could be magistrates or Hn courts were objectors who ving to pay for accinated. ury, smallpox sradicated in je ...

Published: Saturday 18 March 2000
Newspaper: Northampton Chronicle and Echo
County: Northamptonshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 125 | Page: 13 | Tags: none

County woman led the fight against smallpox

... the ingrafting but from septicaemia. Inoculation in this form actually gave the patients smallpox, which was still infectious, so retreats ‘They take the smallpox here as a way of diversion’ - Lady Mary Wortley sprang up everywhere to isolate patients ...

Published: Saturday 18 March 2000
Newspaper: Northampton Chronicle and Echo
County: Northamptonshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 746 | Page: 12 | Tags: none

BY ALAN BURMAN

... their family has a mind to have the smallpox, they make parties for this purpose and when they are met (commonly 15 or 16 together) the old woman comes with a walnut-shell full of the matter of the best sort of smallpox and asks what vein you please to have ...

Published: Saturday 18 March 2000
Newspaper: Northampton Chronicle and Echo
County: Northamptonshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 235 | Page: 12 | Tags: none

strained risk. The body res?londs with warning signals such as streaming eyes, sweat and numbing of the mouth, ..

... neurons has a deadening effect on some bacteria, resulting in pain relief. It has been used to alleviate the symptoms of gout, smallpox, arthritis, rheumatism and is effective in stopping profuse bleeding, though the thought of rubbing a Habanero chilli on ...

Published: Tuesday 28 March 2000
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 177 | Page: 14 | Tags: none

75 years ago Thursday, April 2, 1925

... judging from the inquiries he had, he anticipated an influx of lady members during the next few weeks. TWO fresh cases of smallpox have occurred at Bedlington. The patients, a young married woman and a middle age woman, both live at Bedlington Station ...

Published: Thursday 30 March 2000
Newspaper: Blyth News Post Leader
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 135 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

50 Years Ago

... eleven maths old girl was the second victim of smallpox in Scotland last night. Tbe outbreak originated from contact with an infected Eastern seaman and it was described as of the virulent type of smallpox. The Irish Minister for Health said that while ...

Published: Tuesday 04 April 2000
Newspaper: Irish Independent
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 118 | Page: 27 | Tags: none

Radio 4

... |- reveals a few surprising f; 9:00 Killing The Killers. at . the possible conseq of destroying the last ¢ batches of the smallpox 10:00 The World Tonight. - 10:45 Book At Bedtime: Desqueroux. Thérése reflects on the past. 11:00 Struck Off And Die's Health ...

Published: Wednesday 05 April 2000
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 347 | Page: 19 | Tags: none

Grands Getman& 4.00 T/5 Minules 4.05

... 45 Letters horn the Morning of the World. Robert Walker desalt:4a Me Bak. 9.00 Killing the Killers. The destruction of the smallpox virus. 9.30 Midweek. Broadcast earlier. 10.00 The World Tonight. With Clalre Boideracin. 10.45 Book at Bedtime: Therese ...

Published: Wednesday 05 April 2000
Newspaper: Evening Herald (Dublin)
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 334 | Page: 41 | Tags: none

Radio

... 900 Klng Gareth o-caflm. 10.00 Avril Hoare and the Killers PMWMMW William Leal »12meog‘n‘3vm the last known batches of the smallpox virus. 9. mcmmnm 5,00 Tony Fen- Midweek. Broadcast earer. 10.00 The Wovid ton on the Radio. 7.00 (FM) The Nightly Most Tonight ...

Published: Wednesday 05 April 2000
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 663 | Page: 31 | Tags: none

The ins and outs of dealing with'emigration officials

... camgo charged, be it goods or people. mthelmmhfi:h-fi' ship, the Erin-go-bragh was in quarantine. The passengers were {il with smallpox, scariet fever and typhoid. They were taken ashore to When the Suez Canal was completed in 1869 it cut the passage time from ...

Published: Saturday 22 April 2000
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 607 | Page: 24 | Tags: none

THURSDAY

... THURSDAY THE COMMAND (1954): This sweeping Western focuses on a doctor whose efforts to control and treat a smallpox outbreak are constantly hampered by an on-going feud between the US cavalry and local Red Indians. With Guy Madison and Joan Weldon. (CHANNEL ...

Published: Saturday 06 May 2000
Newspaper: Northampton Chronicle and Echo
County: Northamptonshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 248 | Page: 21 | Tags: none