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.*pital superintendent and a local secretary 

 of the il Association. Some six 



ildren were in the Home, sixteen of 

 whom were under four yean of age. \\ :.:. these 

 she was constantly at play. On seeing this the 

 medical suiH-rintendent's remark corresponded 



16 expression of a medical officer of hca 



who saw some cases elsewhere the day tafore. 



xxi gracious I is it safe? I see the scarlet 



T case and I see the healthy children all 



about in the room, but I must have a few days 



to think < for I cannot take it in. It is 



so contrary to all my teaching and experience. 



I can say/' he added with a smile, " is that 



by all sanitary law and authority you ought to 



be in prison for ten years for exposing so many 



children to such dangerous infection." 



At the end of the fourth week this child was seen 

 by the medical officer of health with some fi 

 children at dinner under the trees in the open air. 

 She was carefully inspected by him. Her hands 

 were peeling most freely in large patches. In 

 spite of this mingling together, however, with so 

 many children of such tender years, no other case 

 occurred. She was inspected two days later by 

 other medical practitioners from a large soci< 

 The final cases at the Village Home occurred in 

 beginning of October. Towards the end of 

 that month the patients were inspected by one 



