I didn't tell anyone that I had been sick
From a report from Åkeberg orphanage for tuberculosis -threatened children, home 1960. Read excerpts from the one in the last chapter, " PDF Christmas at Åkeberg ( 9.06 MB ) ".
- An online exhibition about tuberculosis, the treatment and the time afterwards
"I didn't tell anyone that I had been sick" is a documentation and dissemination project about tuberculosis.
Many Norwegians were in tuberculosis institutions in the 1950s and 60s. How has the disease and the treatment affected the people, the families and also the society outside?
Also listen to Inghill Johansen's text Like returning home from a war (prologue), read by Anne Cathrine Straume:
