My mother was always the first target for mosquitos and fleas.
While pregnant with me in 1950, she went to hospital for an ante-natal visit.
When the nurses saw the terrible spots on her tummy, to her shock, they isolated her - they thought she had smallpox. She was too embarrassed to say they were flea bites!
-Tojo Melville, Hove
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