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Letters from patients to the Glasgow Dental Hospital, circa 1933*

(While these letters have their comic side they vividly reveal the miseries of the focal sepsis era, and the struggle to preserve dignity and decency in the face of the great poverty of the time.)

Dear Sir
or Madame would you please write and let me Know How Much your False Teeth are A Set I was ordered By the Doctor to get Mines out which I Did Through pirre (sic) in the Gums and we have Been told That The Teeth are very Dear and if That is so we will have to go Teethless you can Let us Know your price
ind oblige Jxxx Pxxx
BurndykeSt Govan S.W.l

[ wont bother about tooth as I have got my own again
Thanks all the same
From Mrs Rxxx ''
Excuse writing I had no paper at hand (written on a piece of? toilet paper)

* Sent to us by Mrs. Janet Finlayson, see 'Glasgow Dental Hospital and School in the 1930s', Issue No l6

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