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Paying tribute to working women's history is something, as a female activist and Branch Officer dealing with Health & Safety; that Beverley Kenyon CWU Health and Safety Officer Bootle Financial Services takes seriously.
Beverley told Unionsafety: "The plaque was placed anyway and we are hoping to attend the postponed public event when we are able too." She was known as having a robust character which led her here to help the welfare and health safety of the Boer women and children in British concentration camps.
The conditions these women and children lived in where horrifying due to overcrowding and the lack of hygiene measures. Some never had shelter and slept outside in all weathers. Poor diets, widespread disease like Diphtheria, and Typhoid fever with malnutrition alongside as well. No vegetables and milk for children. Death in
childbirth, not a very nice picture. No medical staff and medicines around. They
were kept separate from the husbands taken away in oxcarts so mental health
issues were high if not recognised in those days. Source: Images of Burscough video - YouTube link / The Anglo-Boer War: a chronology , Pretoria: Lapa.| Potgieter, D.J. et al. (eds)(1970). / Standard Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa , Cape Town: NASOU, v. 3, p. 378-380.| Potgieter, D.J. et al. (eds)(1970). / Standard Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa , Cape Town: NASOU, v. 5, p. 544-546.
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