Word: croydon
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...floods and gale winds appeared in full fury. The freak week began with the biggest, blackest cloud of smog within London's memory, suddenly enveloping the nation's noontime capital in midnight darkness. Pedestrians scurried for shelter, and one bearded old prophet paraded in front of Croydon Town Hall crying aloud, "The end of the world has come." The thickest snows in eight years covered all British counties except Cornwall, which had instead the worst floods of half a century. The National Automobile Association officially reported "the worst mixture of terrible road conditions we can remember." The Royal...
Most people prefer to stay away from hospitals, if possible. But Elsie loved operations. In April 1947, her abdomen already laced with post-operative scars, Elsie checked in at London's Croydon General Hospital giving a false name and complaining of mysterious pains. She said she had been vomiting blood. The doctors put her to bed for rest and observation; after two days she left without warning...
...months after that, Elsie, under still another name, was in the Royal Sussex Hospital persuading doctors that she had a bleeding ulcer. An operation was performed to determine her trouble, but before the surgeons were satisfied Elsie left the hospital. Less than two months later, she was back at Croydon, "doubled up in agony" from abdominal pain...
...From Croydon, Elsie took herself to Redhill County Hospital, from Redhill to Paddington Hospital where another operation was performed. A month later, she turned up at Fulham, where a staff surgeon recognized her. In the two years since then, almost always under a different name, Elsie has appeared at nine London hospitals. Dr. Richard Asher, who reports her case in the Lancet, is confident she will show up in another any day, if she is not under the knife right...
...Croydon, Surrey, England