PJS Posted 26 September , 2018 Share Posted 26 September , 2018 My grandfather was twice hospitalized for Scabies in WW1. First in Egypt in November 1916 for 9-days (at a Field Ambulance) and then 4 months later in France (at a Stationary Hospital) for 13-days. Can anyone provide a detailed description of how Scabies was treated by the Army in WW1 and an explanation of why it took as many days as it did to treat? Peter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MBrockway Posted 26 September , 2018 Share Posted 26 September , 2018 See Chapter II - Skin Diseases, pp.68 &f of the Official History - Medical Services Diseases of the War, Vol. II (WG MacPherson et al., 1924), Scabies is covered in detail on pp.82-86. The chapter Bibliography on pp.112-117 gives further references. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PJS Posted 26 September , 2018 Author Share Posted 26 September , 2018 7 minutes ago, MBrockway said: See Chapter II - Skin Diseases, pp.68 &f of the Official History - Medical Services Diseases of the War, Vol. II (WG MacPherson et al., 1924), Scabies is covered in detail on pp.82-86. The chapter Bibliography on pp.112-117 gives further references. Thank you. https://archive.org/stream/medicalservicesd02macp#page/70/search/scabies Peter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dai Bach y Sowldiwr Posted 26 September , 2018 Share Posted 26 September , 2018 p.86: "...scabies may be spread directly from infected women or horses..." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PJS Posted 26 September , 2018 Author Share Posted 26 September , 2018 The sentence after that appears to be superfluous - and a relief. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frank_East Posted 27 September , 2018 Share Posted 27 September , 2018 Scabies was quite common during the war among the civilian and military population....there were cases of it breaking out at schools resulting in scabie treatment which was lotion applied to skin.Being contiguous,it might have been a wartime reportable infection since as far as I can remember there was infection medical support centre,external to GP services in town.Head lice was another problem among schoolgirls...I remember my mother performing the ritual of using the special comb on my young sisters' hair in the evening after returning from school. Regarding the services.Some time ago I read the account of a RAF evader who was downed in France in the summer of 1944.He was on the run for 3 months or so with help from the French Resistance circles.When his location was overrun by the Allies,he was repatriated back to England and had to be deloused as he was found to be subject to a lice infection and also had picked up scabies. FFI at its best. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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