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ill with scarlet fever, and he and his wife had 

 had to leave their house and board out dun 

 the illness, two or three nurses being in .tiund 

 ance on the child. The father was not p< 1 to 



take books from his private supply. On a sub- 

 sequent visit he found that the mother had nursed 

 a little one through a scarlet fever attack about 

 the same date, her other children being in and 

 out of the room all the time. In this instance, 

 again, only one child was attacked, and no infec- 

 tion was conveyed the house. 



It is, of course, by no means easy to convince 

 the medical profession and the laity that this 

 method of treatment does not carry with it serious 

 dangers. In one of the earlier cases dealt with 

 a medical visitor to the home said to the mot) 



Are you mad to allow your other children to 

 be exposed to such a serious infection as scarlet 

 fever?" All the children, healthy and infer 

 were playing together. " No," said the mother ; 

 " I have had similar experiences more than once, 

 and I know that it is perfectly safe." " If Dr. 

 Milne allows this, he should be prosecuted by the 

 sanitary authorities." Her confidence was justi- 

 fied by the result. More recently in the same 

 family a young child caught scarlet fever, and 

 a brother who had not previously suffered lived 

 in the same room and shared his little sister's 

 bed from the beginning to the end of the attack. 



