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Hospital records show first NHS treatments

New nurses and doctors had to tackle tonsils and unpleasant abscesses on the first day a city hospital came under NHS control.

Archivist Hilary Ritchie took a tour of the records at Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge to see what life was like at the site 70 years ago.

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The Dotty McLeod Breakfast Show05/07/2018

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