24 HOME TREATMENT AND 



submit this record to my professional brethren in 

 the form of a communiqut to the medical press 

 as I did before ; but circumstances, over which I 

 had no control, prevented me. I have, therefore, 

 to adopt this pamphlet form. 



I may here mention that we have considerably 

 over 8600 children under the sheltering care of 

 Dr. Barnardo's Homes. Over 1300 girls are in 

 the Village Home at Barkingside, Ilford. These 

 reside in sixty-seven cottages, with a moth< r 

 or each. Also a receiving house for seventy. 

 The village stands in its own ground of sixty-four 

 acres, and is beautifully laid out. In the village 

 we have both a school and a church, but greatly 

 need a hospital, for at present three cottages are 

 utilised as an infirmary. In our large London 

 Homes we have from 120 to 400 children. These 

 are all trained to work when twelve years of age 

 the older lads in one or other of fourteen trades. 

 Girls' Village In November and December 1908, nine cases of 

 demic, 1908. scarlet fever occurred in nine different cottages at 

 the Girls' Village Home. All of these had the 

 carbolic oil and eucalyptus treatment from the 

 first symptoms ; most of them in their individual 

 cottages. Two, however, for greater convenience, 

 were treated in the general wards of the infirmary 

 cottages. The other children in the cottages were 

 allowed to visit them daily. After ten days the 

 patients were out of bed and mingling freely with 



