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It was during an epidemic at ihat 1 was 



able first to test somewhat fully the value of the 

 treatmi m our isolation house patients 



\vnv returned in Jive, four, three, ami two weeks. 

 They mingled with from sixteen to t 

 other girls from two to sixteen years of age. 

 no case was there any infection carried. 



On many occasions I have kept a child in 

 room with from six to twenty other child 

 without any infection spreading. More recently 

 the patient remained the whole time in a mem 

 occupied by twenty-four others, all under ten years 

 of age. 



Although I have shown how safe the children 

 are, even in the same room, immediately : 

 eucalyptus and carbolic oils have been applied. 

 on one occasion, when the rubbing was done 

 a young nurse, she was attacked, but I believe 

 this has never happened when proper care has 

 been exercised. 



Since writing the above notes a nurse in one of 

 our hospitals was attacked with a severe form of 

 scarlet fever. She was treated in the above 

 manner in the hospital, yet, although there were 

 young children in both the wards above and on 

 the same floor on which she lay, and althoi: 

 they passed her ward constantly to the lavatory, 

 there was not another case. 



On December 13, 1907, a scarlet fever case 



