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Originally Posted by HarryT
Oh, absolutely, yes. "Measles parties" were a normal thing in Britain in the 1960s. If a local child caught a mild childhood illness like measles or chickenpox, all the local parents would send their children around in the hope of them catching it. As you say, this would probably be regarded as child abuse by some today!
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It was rare here in the US (where I was born and raised), but before I was born my parents lived in England (where the locals called them 'lord and lady'), so they probably adopted a limey tradition...