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The Salters were absolute heroes in Bermondsey. My Nan (born 1914) was a patient of Dr Salter as a baby - he told her mother off for swaddling her too tightly, saying she needed fresh air and room to kick her legs!

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Thank you for sharing that. The Salters' own daughter had died (aged just eight, of scarlet fever) just four years earlier and I think the community felt their sorrow very deeply.

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The free window-boxes (even though they didn't quite come off) were a lovely - and inspired - idea.

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