The Victorians had lots of diseases that we rarely or don't have today like scarlet fever, small pox, mumps, diptheria and whooping cough. We are now vaccinated against them so we are unlikely to get these diseases.
Sometimes when one child was ill with a disease, the whole family stayed at home. When a particularly bad disease broke out the school would be closed! School closed for a week because of measles.
1888
Some children who went to Clay Cross School moved to Stretton Handley School to avoid catching small pox or other diseases .
Close contact with animals meant children often caught diseases off them such as ringworm.
Gathered hand, thumb and face are all mentioned in the log book. Gathered means swollen with pus - YUK!!
1899
Children got run over by horses and got hurt looking for things - and all on the way to school!
1888
