It was about a healthy life style and communities working together.Ĭalamine or Vinegar Image: Glass bottles of apple cider vinegar stood next to fresh red apples. This preventative approach meant that keeping a family healthy, and free from sickness, was more than just knowing remedies and being able to identify herbs and other medicinal plants. News of a sick neighbor would spread quickly, and everyone knew to stay clear of anything that might be contagious. You would not find much processed food (if any) in the pantries of working people from the 1930s and 40s, whereas today almost everyone eats some processed foods every day.Īs well as a difference in diet, local communities would have a more active role in preventing the spread of illness.
This is the origin of the myth that going out in the cold with wet hair or feet will lead you to get a cold.ĭiet is a key part of keeping healthy, and preventing sickness. In the past preventing sickness was an important concern, which lead to a lot of research into links between the cold weather and the common cold. There are a lot of differences between our lives today and the lives of people in the 1930s and 40s, some of these differences have an impact on our health. Meaning that they would need to be able to treat common household aliments with the things they could easily got hold of.
As a result lower income families might not be able to afford to see a doctor or buy medicines. This was a time before the National Health Service, which provides medical care free at the point of use. Several of the home remedies we still think of today were around in the 1930’s and 40’s. Image Right: A black and white image Mrs Smith in 1918, sat on the arm of a chair and working with her hands. Taking time to explore some of the plant knowledge which would have been a part of home treatments. All from the 1930s and 40s we will explore some of the science behind how and why they work, while taking a brief look at attitudes to keeping healthy. This exhibition shares some of the home remedies Mrs Smith is likely to have known or used when caring for employers, friends, and relatives. For her employers in her roles as a ladies companion, then, when she returned to Navenby in the 1920s she provided care for her adoptive mother Mary, adoptive brother Fred, and later on for her husband Joe. Mrs Smith spent many years of her life caring for others through sickness and old age.
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