Hello List, Would having had Scarlet Fever in childhood have been a reason for someone to have been exempted from military service ? Thanks in advance, Ian

Ian - I do not know why, but I can confirm that my own father had scarlet fever and was exempt from military service for that reason. Sherry IanGDurham@aol.com wrote: >Hello List, > >Would having had Scarlet Fever in childhood have been a reason for someone >to have been exempted from military service ? > >Thanks in advance, Ian > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GREATWAR-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > >

Hi, Scarlet fever, I'm told (by an ER nurse), isn't the disease it was 100 years ago. I was shocked when one of my children was diagnosed with it in the 1990s & recovered quite nicely. I remember a child I grew up with (1970s) losing all his eyebrows & eyelashes permanently from it. I also recall reading about Laura Ingalls Wilder's sister, Mary Ingalls, going blind from it, so imagine my horror at hearing my child had it! Somehow, it has lost some of it's punch & was indeed a much worse disease years ago. Incidently, scarlet fever is the rash from the strept (spelling?) virus, as in strept throat. Mary in Canada

Ian I don't think the Scarlet Fever itself would be a cause of exemption, and often ran a fairly short, sharp course, followed by recovery. However, there were many severe complications of the illness, notably rheumatic fever, and associated heart disease, and severe chronic renal impairment, which would have caused permanent disability. Of course it was also frequently fatal. Sue Sue Light [Lancing, West Sussex] www.scarletfinders.co.uk On 05/10/06, IanGDurham@aol.com <IanGDurham@aol.com> wrote: > > Hello List, > > Would having had Scarlet Fever in childhood have been a reason for someone > to have been exempted from military service ? > > Thanks in advance, Ian > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > GREATWAR-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

Hi My Grand father suffered from Scarlet fever as a child and he did serve as a Naval Medical Orderly during WW2. However, this period of service wrecked his delicate health, and he died twenty years later, after many years of suffering without my grandmother qualifying for a war pension. Thanks Chris -----Original Message----- From: greatwar-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:greatwar-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of IanGDurham@aol.com Sent: 05 October 2006 19:11 To: GREATWAR@rootsweb.com Subject: [GREATWAR] Medical Question Hello List, Would having had Scarlet Fever in childhood have been a reason for someone to have been exempted from military service ? Thanks in advance, Ian ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GREATWAR-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message