Hi Keith, Thanks for that. Good point. I know that I had scarlet fever when I was a youngster, and so had I been born a century earlier, I probably would not be here now, if you see what I mean :-) Best wishes, Mike -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Keith Cranney Sent: 12 September 2012 20:44 To: [email protected] Cc: <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [B&S] Website request for infectious disease outbreaks in UK over history Mike / all Infectious disease should also include outbreaks of Chicken Pox - Scarlet Fever - Diptheria all of which affected areas here within the Uk all were treated very differently in the past than they are today with the intervention of modern medicine and antibiotics. Best Wishes Keith On 10 Sep 2012, at 15:03, "Mike Gould" <[email protected]> wrote: > Many thanks to Helen, Tony and Edna for their information about infectious > diseases. From links provided, it appears that there was not a national > epidemic as such, but as Tony has said, TB or Consumption was endemic in the > population until the arrival of penicillin. > > Best wishes, > > Mike > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mike Gould > Sent: 10 September 2012 09:59 > To: [email protected] > Subject: [B&S] Website request for infectious disease outbreaks in UK over > history > > Hi Listers, > > Can someone please let me know of a website that lists the years in which > there were outbreaks of infectious diseases in the UK over time. It's been > posted on the list before, but I can't seem to find it. > > George GOULD died in Litton in 1857 of "Scrofula" (TB). He was only 24 > years old and a shoemaker by trade. I was wondering whether this was an > isolated case, or part of a local outbreak, or a national one ? > > Best wishes, > > Mike Gould > Leicestershire > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

On Thu, 13 Sep 2012 11:08:26 +0100, Mike Gould <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks for that. Good point. I know that I had scarlet fever when I > was a youngster, and so had I been born a century earlier, I probably > would not be here now, if you see what I mean :-) Hi Mike and Listers, Scarlet fever reminded me of scarlatina. The latter was a word that I heard in my childhood. Whether I had scarlatina or whether someone else we knew had it I'm not sure and there's no one left to ask. I have a little snippet about scarlatina, which may be of interest to anyone looking at diseases in the Bristol area in the 19th century. Between the years 1861-1870, scarlatina was the cause of 2,180 deaths in the registration districts of Bristol and Clifton. Josephine