Sorry, but when I was a kid I don't recall and of my friends or I having it.
Don't even recall my parents or our doctor even suggesting it.
Never had a throat culture taken.
It seems more common now ... like ear infections, conjunctivitis, and others.
All of them were very common fifty or more years ago... there are chronic diseases that have grown much more prevalent in children these days (e.g. asthma) but the diseases you describe have all been very common throughout history. I don't know that doctors really medicated most of them at the time, though.
