VERSION|0.5.1|NAME|Matt Westwood|DATE|1366541265|CONTENT|When I was a child the polio vaccination was not questioned. We lined up in the staff room and had our nasty-tasting sugar cubes. That was it. I also remember an injection, but can&#039;t remember what for. We were about five or six. The babies squeaked, we brave ones didn&#039;t make a sound. And to the best of my memory, there was no question about whether we were allowed to opt out. This would have been in the mid-60&#039;s.

I do remember forms my mother used to have to fill in declaring which of the various illnesses we&#039;d had. I believe diphtheria, polio and whooping-cough were the ones which nobody caught any more - measles, mumps, scarlet fever and chicken-pox we were at some point *expected* to catch - the earlier the better, apparently. And, in due course, by the time we were six or seven we had indeed all had measles, at least.

There was also a [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BCG_vaccine]BCG vaccine[/url] against TB which we were supposed to get mid-teens but because of the incompetence of the bureaucracy, for some reason I got missed.|EMAIL|prime.mover@proofwiki.org|IP-ADDRESS|2.120.151.90|MODERATIONFLAG|