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They did not In days four were down 



with a modified attack of measles. 



By way of contrast to the above, consider what 

 occurred at the same time at the Girls' Village 

 Home. In six different cottages, six children 

 were attacked with measles. First ii 

 occurred in four cottages, and none beyond. 

 in- Now is it possible to account for the successful 

 treatment in these cottage cases as compare' 1 

 the failure in the private family ? I think so. In 

 the private household the children were often in 

 the same room, while in the cottages they were in 

 a different room, which, however, opened upon the 

 same landing as the other bedrooms. My personal 

 belief is that in the private family the infection 

 was spread through the violent coughing of the 

 patient. For in the act of coughing disease germs 

 will be thrown at least twenty feet probably a 

 much greater distance. In this way the contagion 

 was thrown far beyond the immediate action of 

 the eucalyptus, and inhaled by the others before 

 destruction of the germ, and so the disease spread. 



In the cottages, on the other hand, the euca- 

 lyptus had time to act upon the contagion and 

 destroyed it. 



My ultimate conclusion is, therefore, this, that 



I believe the eucalyptus treatment will be as 

 successful in measles as in scarlet fever if we 

 succeed in obtaining some powerful, yet agreeable, 



