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marked. This is the only occasion I have ever 



spread after a patient was 

 r treatment, and we need not be surprised 

 at the fact win- umstances are con- 



sidered All the other cases have bad from slight 



ry heavy peeling. 



On :li March, with a scarlet fev. 



hospital su | dent I called at the isolating 



cottage to which, as already stated, nine cases 



rrcd from I lor Majesty's Hospital. 



I was greatly surprised to find that on Saturday, 



was a bitterly cold day, two lads had 



iout being warmly clad. I had given 



most 1 instructions to see that these lads 



so clad. The two lads knew where they 



going, and went without permission. One 



>e boys from the isolation cottage died a 



week lat he hospital of pneumonia of both 



lungs. The ri^ht lung, we found, was solid 



: was nearly so, with slight pleuritic 



ion. No fluid was found in the abdominal 



the time the urine was normal in 



and contained very slight albumen. The 



;i a healthy condition, normal in 



weight. It is a most noteworthy circumstance 



that e of death was pneumonia a disease 



very ran \vn after scarlet fever while the 



ieys were healthy. 



ise is worthy of comment in conne 



