JO HOME TREATMENT AND 



spreading. When such a case has occurn . 1 I have 

 kept the aroma of the oil in the rooms, and had 

 a little sprinkled on the beds da as 



well as on a handkerchief at 'st of 



n. This has, I have found, entirely limited 

 the epidemic to at most one or two cas< 

 had been playing with the first child on the 

 attack coming on, while in many instances it 

 has cut the epidemic short. This spring an out- 

 break occurred in Her Majesty's Hospital in a 

 ward containing twelve children, all under four 

 years of age. The child was isolated and tho 

 above plan carried out : three cases occurred on 

 the fourteenth and fifteenth days, but none after- 

 wards. 



I should like to be permitted to add a word 

 of warning on the subject of measles. Since my 

 paper was written a measles epidemic appear* <1 

 in our receiving home, where sixty children were 

 in residence. The epidemic was limited to the 

 first infection that is, to cases occurring within 

 twelve to sixteen days after the first appearance. 

 Yet I cannot speak with the same confidence in 

 regard to measles as with regard to scarlet fc\ 

 I should like to emphasise this, because several 

 correspondents have written to me as if I had 

 recommended this line of treatment being pursued 

 with equal confidence in cases of measles as in 

 cases of scarlet fever. 



