TV: Hidden Killers of the Post-War Home

Just coming up more recently is the impact of bromine fire retardants on human health - for example, the thyroid.

me when British people embraced modern design for the first time after year s of austerity and self-denial. The look and feel of the postwar 1950s home - a 'modern' world of moulded plywood furniture, fibreglass, plastics and polyester - had its roots in the innovative materials discovered during Wor ld War II.

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rts, including chemistry sets and Practical Householder, feature.

Yes, watched it. Spoilt by the Twittering Bimbos.

Indeed. The previous incarnations of the program,like the Victorian one with the arsenic wallpaper was relatively interesting so I was hoping this one would be. Nope :(

This week victorian houses with killer staircases, bathrooms, laundries and chemicals

It said 'new' but I'm sure I've seen killer staircases, borax in milk, and gas baths before. Or maybe that was Killers Still Present in the Edwardian Home.

Owain

d gas baths before. Or maybe that was Killers Still Present in the Edwardia n Home.

Borax is less toxic than table salt. Killers included arsenic pigmented pai nt & wallpaper, backboiler systems with no safety pressure vent, town gas l ighting with very high CO content, asbestos, tainted foods. Unregulated fac tory machinery also took many lives, and a fair bit of production machinery was used in homes then. Trains also killed many.

I don't know what the impact was of collapsing houses, traction engines etc .

NT