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« on: Saturday 30 July 22 13:04 BST (UK) »
Pharma t,
Measles and other infectious diseases were always hazardous in the undernourished or impoverished.
Fit children just get it and get over it.
But itcan be fatal in adults who have no immunity to it even today.
I knew a young mother who caught it from her 6 yr old son.
She died in three weeks from complcations leaving leaving two boys 6 and six months.
We were all devastated. This was in the early 1970,s.
Yes, i too remember all the wee ones whose lives hardly started, Elizabeth Mary aged 5 mths, in the 1850 s ,
Bridget ,Muldooney , Thomas , Emma Matilda( aged 13 weeks, TB. 1859,)
Almond 1760 s, John , Lydia, aged 12 (who died in Ackworth school along with schoolmates all of some sort of influenza) and lastly ,Great granny's babies, 3 of them who died before the age of five all handicapped. Including poor little Em, paralysed, deaf, blind.
Those are ones I know.... so many unremembered.
How strong nd accepting all those mothers were.
Top of the hill
I expect those children were in no danger as they would have heeded any warnings given.