SIR - Your correspondent Peter Lunn asks for information regarding Tudor House when it was a school clinic.
I well remember being sent, with other pupils, from the Samuel Southall School sometime in 1938, to receive an inoculation against diphtheria. I remember we queued up in a line to receive our "jab" which was administered by a doctor whose name I think was Griffin. He held the point of his needle in a candle flame to sterilise it before each injection. It gave me real peace of mind as I was scared of catching diphtheria, which was a scourge of young children in those days. Four years before, a little girl I played with died of it, as did several of her class mates.
JOHN WRIGHT,
Worcester.
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