There are few deaths following chicken pox and many of these cannot
be properly blamed on the disease. There occur occasionally in poorly
nourished children, gangrenous processes in the skin which may cause
death. Blood poisoning may rarely follow the introduction of ordinary
wound infections into the open lesions. The itching associated with the
drying stage is very troublesome, and children sometimes in scratching,
break the deeper layers of the skin, and small ulcers are produced
which heal with scars or pits. One most often sees these scars on the
forehead of children. Usually no permanent pits follow recovery.