She saw lines of children sitting up in bed with rheumatic hearts, who would die because there was no National Health Service and good health cost money. She saw that poverty is deadly. “How anyone could do medicine in those days,” she wrote, “and not become a socialist I find hard to understand. What I hated most was people’s acceptance: ‘Yes, I have had seven children and buried six, it was God’s will.’ I hated God’s will with a burning hatred.”
