The World Wide Gangshow Forum

Apart from Entertainments provided by the Rover Scouts at 'The King Georges Hall' at the Central London YMCA in the late 1920's;the most popular mid week Entertaiment was 'Dr.A G L Reades' "Popular Illustrated Lecture Tuberculosis".Although there are no published figures on the number of Boy Scouts that suffered from the of the many forms of this Condition there were a great many 'Sanatoria' across the Country that in the 1950's and early 1960's contained there own 'Senior Scout Troops' these were attached to Troops outside of the Hospital.As most of there Adolescent Patients were required to remain in bed as rest was part of their Treatment it down to to the other members of their Senior Scout Troop to Present Gang Shows for the patients and staffs entertainment.Needless to say these were given a range of 'Scouty' mixed with 'Medical' titles such as 'Beyond the Pail' and 'Nurse,Nurse....' When particular pieces were introduced such as "I need the bedpan now "Nurse" !" and "The "Girl Guides" Visit" there was ample scope for all the Gang Show 'Hiatus'.Papworth Sanitorium was the one of the first to set up a Wolf Cub Pack on the instigation of King George and Queen Mary in 1918 and BP Himself organised the training of the Staff.In 1932 Andre Alibert's 'La tuberculose Pulmonaire de L'adolescent' was published in Paris and was influential on the way that it treated adolescent patients.At the O2 Festival of Scouting 'Live O7' the 100 Year Time line showed the introduction of the first BCG Vaccination in 1921 the year before Rover Scouting started (I think 'they' were a year out) and it should have read 1922 the same year as Rover Scouting.The effects of this was only seen in the early 1960's when there was a dramatic drop in the number of Boy Scout deaths.Part of the reason for this as BP knew very well in the 1890's was that Camping and living and sleeping in the open air was "Wise Health for a Boy Scout".Dr.Stu..