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vitoscotti · 10-04-2022, 02:57 PM

June would have doctors house call for the kids mildest of illnesses. Slight cold, low grade fever, sniffles, scratchy throat. I remember the era of doctor's house calls and it was never for minor things like that. It was before flu shots and we'd get some brutal ones. Most was over the phone if needed but a house call was only for the most extreme. Odd too that tougher Ward ok'd the sniffles Doc home visits.

stevea · 10-04-2022, 03:45 PM

I grew up in the 50s and 60s and I never had a house call. The CLeavers even had a vet come over for a monkey!

And, right, Beaver or Wally's sick, doctor right sway. And I remember there was a Brady Bunch episode where the majority of the kids had the measles--and they had two doctors come over. For a virus--there's no cure (and back then there was no vaccine to prevent it, I guess)!

spiderrob8 · 10-20-2022, 12:16 PM

My mom had housecalls for colds and illnesses. They didnt want you to bring that into the doctor's office like you do now.

Hosuecalls were over when I was growing up. I suppose not enough volume could be seen in one day.

Various measles vaccines were studied and used throughout the 60s. An improved version of the measles vaccine came in 1968 and subsequently the MMR vaccine in 1971.

The Brady Bunch was PRE school mandates for vaccines:

On March 31, 1977, as a measles epidemic swept through Los Angeles, the county health department issued an ultimatum to the parents of the county’s 1.6 million schoolchildren: Get your kids vaccinated within a month or keep them home.

The “no shots, no school” warning was a novel threat at the time. Since the 1920s — and smallpox — no major city in the United States had locked the unvaccinated out of school.

10-04-2022, 02:57 PM	#1
vitoscotti Member Senior Member Join Date: Feb 14, 2017 Location: Illinois Posts: 1,083	Doctor's house calls for sniffles June would have doctors house call for the kids mildest of illnesses. Slight cold, low grade fever, sniffles, scratchy throat. I remember the era of doctor's house calls and it was never for minor things like that. It was before flu shots and we'd get some brutal ones. Most was over the phone if needed but a house call was only for the most extreme. Odd too that tougher Ward ok'd the sniffles Doc home visits.

10-04-2022, 03:45 PM	#2
stevea 22 Years On Sitcoms Moderator Forum Legend Join Date: Aug 13, 2003 Location: Indy Posts: 44,710	I grew up in the 50s and 60s and I never had a house call. The CLeavers even had a vet come over for a monkey! And, right, Beaver or Wally's sick, doctor right sway. And I remember there was a Brady Bunch episode where the majority of the kids had the measles--and they had two doctors come over. For a virus--there's no cure (and back then there was no vaccine to prevent it, I guess)!

10-20-2022, 12:16 PM	#3
spiderrob8 Member Occasional Poster Join Date: Oct 20, 2022 Location: USA Posts: 13	My mom had housecalls for colds and illnesses. They didnt want you to bring that into the doctor's office like you do now. Hosuecalls were over when I was growing up. I suppose not enough volume could be seen in one day. Various measles vaccines were studied and used throughout the 60s. An improved version of the measles vaccine came in 1968 and subsequently the MMR vaccine in 1971. The Brady Bunch was PRE school mandates for vaccines: On March 31, 1977, as a measles epidemic swept through Los Angeles, the county health department issued an ultimatum to the parents of the county’s 1.6 million schoolchildren: Get your kids vaccinated within a month or keep them home. The “no shots, no school” warning was a novel threat at the time. Since the 1920s — and smallpox — no major city in the United States had locked the unvaccinated out of school.