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was brought into Her Majesty's Hospital The 

 C, newly appointed, had had no 

 1 directed that the 

 ease should lie treated in the way described, I 



wing mon. lad isolated 



a small WAI i 1 thereupon put him among 



a larger ward and treated 



til--!-' N i case occurred, inuary 



'<)8, another scarlet fever case occurred 



o boy was promptly sent in 



to by the house-surgeon, who 



it would be better not to run any 



re were eight recent osteotomies in the 



hospital. Of course, if the new mode of treatm 



proposed will not stand the severest tests the 



soc>: failure is declared the bettor I should 



not have hesitated in the slightest to retain this 



lad in * pit e of the osteotomies. On February 5th 



anl AO further scar or cases occurred, 



also a case on the 18th, in the central home. 



se were place* 1 in the large wards among the 



oth S where they remained with the 



process of peeling going on, but no infection spread 



to any other case in the hospital. 



The above oases I have taken from many ; they 

 show the result, although I would have preferred 

 to carry on the plan longer and prove its 



safety moi before publishing it. Some time 



ago, howev. : 1 nu : a nurse from a country dis- 



