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1 would again most strongly urge that some 

 districts be selected where scarlet fever is threat- 

 ening to become epidemic, and that all the medical 

 men unite with the medical officer of health 

 adopt for a test the plans I have set forth. In 

 tliis trial I would strongly urge that a fully com- 

 petent staff of careful nurses be so: ;md 

 supplied for the carrying out of the treatni 

 For a fair trial the cases under each nurse ought 

 not to be too numerous. I would also suggest 

 to my medical brethren the necessity for cutting 

 off other sources of infection from a home, e.g. 

 by keeping the other children of the family from 

 school for a day or two ; otherwise the home case 

 may be unfairly blamed. To this I attribute some 

 of my success in my earlier experiences. 

 A new view- I quite understand that amongst my medical 

 brethren there is a natural dread of breaking new 

 ground and going dead against one's training and 

 experience. To regard scarlet fever as non-in 

 tious (for that is what practically this method 

 of treatment implies) may well seem unnatural 

 and revolutionary. A doctor speaking on this 

 point illustrated it by a story of our noble King 

 Edward VII., who, when Prince of Wales, was 

 being conducted over an iron foundry. He was 

 told that if he rolled up his sleeve and plunged 

 his hand and arm into a mass of molten metal it 

 would not injure him in the least. Although he 



