I enjoyed the note from Joyce Owen (Letters, March 5) about the smallpox outbreak here in 1950.

It brought back not being allowed to come home to Hove or Brighton without being specially innoculated and told it would be better still not to travel here unless it was an emergency.

I was in the Royal Air Force at the time, stationed at RAF Feltwell, near Thetford in Norfolk. Things must have been pretty bad down here, especially for Joyce's work friends in the switchroom at North Road.

I still have the Station Standing Orders announcement of this outbreak and my medical chit dated October 21, 1950 when I had my jabs.

-Gerald E Spicer, Upper Portslade