The "sicker"

J.R. · Post by **J.R.** » Wed Oct 18, 2006 4:24 pm

Mid A 15 wrote:
J.R. wrote:
DavebytheSea wrote:My cold is the sort that would have landed me in the Sicker. Perhaps too, Dr "Tommy" Scott with his invariable regimen of starvation diet and penicillin injections thrice daily for all ills would have had me cured by now!

Alas, my membranes still ooze uncontrollably and, it seems, I have infected nearly everyone on the forum. Those who had it from me in its early stages are now well on the road to recovery.
Was Tommy there in your days, David ?

Yikes ! He must have done all his 'time' at Horsham as he was still there when I left in 63 !

He scared the hell out of some people, but when I was in the Sicker after a couple of bee-stings, courtesy of Rip Kirby, (the discovery of my allegy to bee stings), I found him a lovely humane guy ! 2 bee stings and a whole week in the Infirmary. Wow !
He was there when I started too John. I reckon he retired about 1968. Hoskins (another OB) then took over.

Apparently, Tommy Scott did a lot to improve the diet of students when he started. God knows what the food must have been like BEFORE he became Doctor !

Mrs C. · Post by **Mrs C.** » Wed Oct 18, 2006 4:35 pm

blondie95 wrote:one floor on the ground is used as heartford which is for girls to go into on their deps if they dont want to remain in their house, a few buts are flats for various people andi m not sure what else

No Hertford anymore Amy

Mrs C. · Post by **Mrs C.** » Wed Oct 18, 2006 4:38 pm

Richard Ruck wrote:
Scone Lover wrote:So what happens when an epidemic hits? We had two, one chicken pox and one flu. Both times house dorms got turned into sicker extensions
I think they just send the kids home........

Correct - well, as long as they`re fit to travel - usually at the first sign of yet another person going down with whatever it maybe, once the infirmary is full.
I think parents are normally requested to collect child to avoid the situation SL mentions!

Great Plum · Post by **Great Plum** » Wed Oct 18, 2006 4:47 pm

Well the sicker (it is not a health centre - why call it that?)
is now the following:

a small ward anddoctor's surgery, dentist.

The wing which had the mortuary is now 3 flats.The top floor is the school museum.

The small boarding house known as Hertford is no more - what is that used for now?

DavebytheSea · Post by **DavebytheSea** » Wed Oct 18, 2006 4:54 pm

.... and it's currently covered in scaffolding (as is the rest of the school), so I think it is falling down.

Great Plum · Post by **Great Plum** » Wed Oct 18, 2006 4:59 pm

My parents' house seems to be fine...

Scone Lover · Post by **Scone Lover** » Wed Oct 18, 2006 5:12 pm

Is the whole school covered in scaffolding?

Why is that?

Mrs C. · Post by **Mrs C.** » Wed Oct 18, 2006 5:41 pm

so little work has been done to the outside of the buildings over the years....

Mid A 15 · Post by **Mid A 15** » Wed Oct 18, 2006 6:34 pm

Mrs C. wrote:so little work has been done to the outside of the buildings over the years....

I can remember some contractors, Szrelemy (?spelling), being around the school most of the time I was there doing bits and pieces to various buildings.

Maybe once they cleared off things got left for a while.

Scone Lover · Post by **Scone Lover** » Wed Oct 18, 2006 7:56 pm

Our major building work was the Arts Centre. I more or less lived in that place the last two years of my time at CH

blondie95 · Post by **blondie95** » Wed Oct 18, 2006 8:21 pm

the renovation of the boarding houses came much later than it should have done, though when last back at parents in CH the water tower hadjust been finished and it looked amazing especially in the evening with the sun on it-so bright andclean looking!

Though i think the orgional buildings have done well considering grecianswest has scaffolding up about 3mths after finishing!

Scone Lover · Post by **Scone Lover** » Thu Oct 19, 2006 12:06 am

Are the school buildings really that bad?

cj · Post by cj » Thu Oct 19, 2006 10:38 am

blondie95 wrote:one floor on the ground is used as heartford which is for girls to go into on their deps if they dont want to remain in their house, a few buts are flats for various people andi m not sure what else

Someone please explain. I don't remember this being an option on my deps? I remember going upstairs to the museum and being shown the death register of pupils. It was fairly creepy up there during the day but the noises would permeate down so that by the evening, if you were an in-patient downstairs, you could be nearly hysterical with fear. And then a visitor may knock on your window. Enough to make you jump pout of your skin!

Scone Lover · Post by **Scone Lover** » Thu Oct 19, 2006 12:29 pm

I can see that I am going to have to go back there and take the crutches so I can attempt some of these stairs

DavebytheSea · Post by **DavebytheSea** » Thu Oct 19, 2006 12:41 pm

I think there is a lift to the museum