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>t who had been engaged in nursing scarlet 

 fever cases for some time. It was hard, she said, 

 to take the fee for the Nursing Institute from these 

 poor people, to whom it was such a sacrifice, for 



o nurses were insisted upon by the authorities. 

 To those who paid the fee it meant retrench 

 for years. Such cases, combined with the in 

 millions of pounds annually spent in the coui 

 over scarlet fever, have determined me to lay 

 plan before my medical brethren. 



dof At first I used carbolic oil 1 in 10, yet in most 

 of the above cases and for twenty-five years I have 

 used eucalyptus oil. For the first four day. I 

 have it rubbed in all over the body from the 

 crown of the head to the soles of the feet twice 

 a day, then once a day until the tenth day of 

 the disease. The aroma fills the room. It greatly 

 modifies the throat trouble and kidney trouble ; 

 ear or nose complications I have not known. The 

 tonsils, however, I always swab with 1 in 10 

 carbolic oil every two hours for the first twenty- 

 four hours. This greatly relieves the pain, and 

 enables the patient to swallow. 



Perhaps I ought to mention that in the 

 titution under my care, both the Sisters in 

 charge of the Hospitals, and the Matrons in the 

 various Homes, have instructions how to act in 

 regard to suspected cases of scarlet fever and 

 of sore throat. us there is no loss of i 



