Controlling the spread of disease in Manchester, 1905
The UK government’s Track and Trace system introduced to manage the spread of COVID-19 is certainly new in its approach, but monitoring outbreaks of infectious disease is nothing new.
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Uses of the Sanatorium
When the Together Trust moved to Cheadle in 1920, it took over a site, which formally belonged to the Milne family. The purchase of the estate, which cost £5,700 (around £125,000 in today's money), included 22.5 acres of land and Belmont House along with an assortment of farm buildings. Originally, the estate was supposed to consist of ten homes but in the end only four were built. Along with Belmont House these housed 120 children. By 1927 a Sanatorium was also built in order to cater for the children if they got sick. A rummage in the archive the other week revealed some statistics for the Sanatorium in its early days. Sanatorium
