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wait : the visit of the 



' the treatment be commenced. 



1 be found of great intercut to Mmfat A 

 records of the epidemic of acarlet fever in Dr. 

 Barnardo's Village Home for GirU, Barkingside, to 



h I have referred above, which occurred 

 December 1C, 1904, to April -J, inn;,. The 

 was milk infection or unknown. There 



were 1100 girls in residence in fifty-eight cottage*. 

 The number in each varied from sixteen to twenty - 

 The epidemic broke out in thirtj-eeveo 

 cottages. In fourteen cottages there occurred 

 only one case; forty-two occurred in cottages in 

 groups of two, three, and four. While there 



red during the same time thirty-five nisoe 

 in which :h.- interval between the cases in the 

 same cottage was over six days (the usual limit 

 now given for infection), yet only two eaaee 

 occurred on the sixth day, one on the fifth, two 

 on the third, and two on the fourth day. These 

 oases were all treated on the first appearance 

 of any symptom as above. The five cisee on the 

 third, fourth, and fifth day, occurring among so 

 many other cases, were due, I believe from my 

 experience, to outside, and not to case-to-case 



ion. Twice during the epidemic I carefully 

 inspected all the children to make sure against 

 any peeling case of unrecognised scarlet fever, bat 

 1 any trace. 



