What's VDS, please?

[SmallTownGirl]

Morning peeps!

Have just found this for a man I'm researching and can't quite work out what VDS stands for.  It's from a hospital report of 1918.  Others on the same page have VDG and I don't know what that is either. 

Can anyone help, please?
Ta muchly
STG

[majm]

Hi,

V.D.  is venereal disease and the S and G are two strains.

JM

[SmallTownGirl]

V.D.  is venereal disease and the S and G are two strains.

I didn't want to lead, but that was what I was thinking too.  Thought I'd check to be sure because it's not the kind of thing you want to get wrong, is it? 

Heaven knows how the family will react 

Thanks for your help
STG

[majm]

   well,  you could simply note that  along with many other men serving during the War his medical records show .... and list several  if they are noted .... including corns,  chills, fever,  VD,  flu,  toothache.  So I am suggesting .... don't make a feature of it,  but just place it in the middle of the middle sentence of a paragraph ....

JM

[SmallTownGirl]

 

[Jebber]

V.D.  is venereal disease and the S and G are two strains.

I didn't want to lead, but that was what I was thinking too.  Thought I'd check to be sure because it's not the kind of thing you want to get wrong, is it? 

Heaven knows how the family will react 

Thanks for your help
STG

S = Syphilis
G= Gonorrhea

Very common at that time, they frequently crop up in military records, most people will find a relative having suffering with some form of VD.

It was a fact of live and should be regarded in the same way as other diseases.

[alan o]

Oh dear.

[Rena]

My other half was conscripted into the forces in the 1950s and one of the first instructions and demonstrations by their (naked) sergeant, the men received was personal hygiene and how to wash themselves either under a shower or if that wasn't possible how to give themselves a "top and tail" with soap and water.  Particular emphasis was on athlete's foot (foot rot) and cleaning of the family jewels (pulling back the sheath for a soap and water wash, etc).  They were also told what V.D.  symptoms to look out for.   At that time condoms were issued;  gossamer type for officers and "wellington boot" type for rank and file.  Apparently (according to my OH)  officers records showed they caught VD from toilet seats, unlike rank and file who caught the disease from bordellos.

[Viktoria]

Do not think it is possible to get either type of V.D from toilet seats.
Had to be direct contact with a sufferer or a baby born to,a sufferer.
Babies can be born with Syphilis,because it can pass through the placenta.
They have a copper coloured rash and a high pitched “cerebral “ cry.
Unmistakable.
Syphilis is a strange disease and can lie dormant and then rear its ugly head in future generations .The different stages can trick people into thinking it has gone away.
It affects innocent people and many stillbirths and miscarriages can be attributed to it.
Horribly fascinating.
Viktoria.