Originally Posted by scilly

Children were often sent to a, for example, "chicken pox party" to be sure they caught it early. I don't think my mother sent me to such a party, but I certainly remember having chicken pox (and one tiny scar on my temple to remind me).

Originally Posted by scilly

I really doubt it.

All I've seen, and I forget where I read it was that deaths in Residential Schools were almost invariably higher than those in surrounding communities, whether they be First Nations or not.

Childhood diseases were prevalent everywhere back then, even in the best of homes, but spread especially quickly when people were living very closely together, eg the poor and especially in the schools (and probably orphanages and workhouses) and may well not have been treated .............. ie, TB, scarlet fever, chicken pox, influenza, etc.

I mean literally every child was subject to all those diseases that you have been vaccinated against .................. those vaccines were not known even when I was a child in the 40s and early 50s.

Children were often sent to a, for example, "chicken pox party" to be sure they caught it early. I don't think my mother sent me to such a party, but I certainly remember having chicken pox (and one tiny scar on my temple to remind me). I also had measles and rubella (which was then called "german measles" ............ can remember being absolutely horrified when Mum told me that was what I had!). Mumps was the really bad one for boys, leading to a lot of men becoming sterile.

The first vaccine I had was the polio vaccine, 3 doses with 2 of them being given on a sugar cube.

My mother was born in 1903 and had scarlet fever when about 9 or 10 years old, and had to be sent away for treatment because it was so contagious.

TB was rife in lots of places, as it still is today even in parts of Canada ....... living in close quarters meant it spread rapidly. It is particularly common on First Nations Reserves and in the North, where people are living in very poor housing, aith too many living together. It's easily treatable now although it mean death back in the day.

Originally Posted by Shard

Interesting history. I had chicken pox when I was 15. I certainly remember it.

Originally Posted by dbd33

I have pictures of the neighbourhood children crawling over me when I had chicken pox as an adult. Being obliged to "cuddle and infect" was worse than having the pox.

Originally Posted by jeremy brewer

Hi
Well it seems the churches are getting burnt down now

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/briti...cton-1.6073976

jerry

Originally Posted by Siouxie

A further 751 graves found in Kamloops.

Originally Posted by caretaker

You say you will when you won't, but uh-uh, honey don't. Those naffing Oblates have backed up from saying here come the records, and again quoting privacy regulations. They can shove those up their cassocks. I'm sure their lawyers are talking to everyone else's lawyers, but it would be nice if something would happen soon, like a subpoena this week. Demand all the relevant records they have and slap them with contempt if they don't fork them over immediately.
"The Oblates already have made a "formal commitment" to release records associated with those schools, but Thorson said during his interview on Monday that the legality of releasing personnel files is unclear."
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/obl...ords-1.6083742