Benjamin's Cap records the progress of ten year old Benjamin who suffers from complete and irreversible baldness due to contracting tuberculosis followed by scarlet fever and diphtheria. He develops a phobia and refuses to go to school where he is ridiculed, or to be seen in public, without wearing his cap.The story tells of his experiences, while confined within one of the experimental sanitoriums for children situated on the bleak North Yorkshire Moors, 1927 - 1929. The conditions are primitive and the rules harsh, misdemeanors in the wards or at the sanatorium school are punished by the strict Matron and Schoolmaster.To Benjamin's joy, the boy patients' tolerance of illness or infirmity, allow them after an initial setback, to accept his baldness.This account of his numerous adventures contains a series of incidents and sub-plots, both humorous and tragic
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