Fever? *COMPLETE* merci mes amis

[Seoras]

Does anyone have any idea what the S.C.fever might be on here.I thought the C might be camp? He's in Peshawar,eastern end of the Khyber Pass,then in India,now Pakistan.

George.

[SWar]

My first thought was Scarlet Fever?

Sue

[Seoras]

Hi Sue,I did think of that but over in the causes column it gives climate.Would that be a cause of scarlet fever?

George.

[Redroger]

My thought is scarlet fever, whether it could be climatically caused I don't know, which I think puts me in the same position as a 19th/20th century army medic in India.

[ajf25]

Would that be a cause of scarlet fever? George.

Scarlet fever is a bacterial infection - Streptococcus pyogenes.  If you've ever heard the expression "strep throat", this is the same bug.

Cheers Alison 

[Redroger]

So it could have been partly as a result of the climate exacerbated by the genral hygenic conditions.

[Seoras]

Hi Redroger,I agree with your comment on the army medics.He seems to have a long list of illnesses ranging from ague? to hepetitus making me wonder how he was ever well enough to fight.The column before the one with climate in is treatment but I can't make out what it says.I could only think of scarlet fever but there does seem to be a full stop after the S and C.

Alison,hello and no I haven't heard of strep throat,will look it up.

add on.Hmmm just read that strep throat is infectious and prevelant in places of overcrowding such as the military and schools.

George.

[esdel]

!853 deaths Ayrshire:-

3 October 6th Thomas Wood's son Thomas - John Wallace's daughter fever - Robert Wallace's child Scar fever

26 Novr - Hugh Wilson New Str suddenly - McCrones child Scarlet fever - 3 Mrs Gibson's child Sc fever

esdel

[PrueM]

The thing that suggests to me that it's not Scarlet Fever is the fact that it's been written with initials, i.e. "S. C. Fever", indicating two words, rather than the one of "Scarlet".

Having said that, I don't know what it could be 

It's obviously a recurring fever, and it has started in (looks like) September, which although it's at the end of summer is still a very hot time in Peshawar - temp into the 30s.  So perhaps the fever was some result of the mismatch of British soldiers with Indian (now Pakistani) climate?

Cheers
Prue