OPERATORS in spinning mills were told to be vaccinated for small pox.
There were 135 cases of a mild form of the disease over the last year in south-east Lancashire.
The Preston by-pass, which the Ministry of Transport said could be started in 1956, was planned to be a high speed road on which motorists can travel at 75mph without trouble, it was revealed.
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