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time was allowed for secondary :. May 



not the question be fairly raise* 1 Do all the 



us complications come through secondary 



I am inclined to say they 

 The second case is thus described on ad- 

 mission to the hospital : " Headache, sore throat, 



rod tongue, and septic-looking rash." 

 treated i usual way. Almost at once, how- 



veloped lobar pneumonia, yet he ran 

 a favourable course. 



medical officer of health who called and saw Medical 

 some of these Stepney cases in the various stages 

 remarked, "Good heavens, Milne! a scarlet fever 

 case between two cases of recent operatioi 



i I I couM not have believed it unless I 

 had see!) Yet there was no infection, 



me remark that the astonishmen 



tatimi 



these visitors is universal among medical men 

 whew, y have observed cases under the 



treatment On many occasions I have kept a 

 1 in the same room with from six to twenty- 

 other children, without any infection spread- 

 ing. 1 ral recent experiences the patient 

 remained the whole time in a room occupied by 



nty-four others at night, all under fourteen 

 years of age. A company of medical officers of 

 health our Village Home while scarlet 



<T cases were peeling freely. There was one 

 instance of especially bad tonsils, and one case of 



