Childhood illnesses

Illness remained a serious problem with children up to the mid 1950s as is recorded in the school log books, with diptheria, scarlet fever, whooping cough and brain fever not to mention consumption.
An illness which was not so usual became an epidemic in the village in 1925 with a fatality. This illness was generally called jaundice at the time although from the following writing they believed it may have been Weil’s disease. Some children from every family in the village succumbed to it.

B Pittam 2014

 

Add Photo of various text from log book of a variety of illnesses mentioned.