8 IIOMK TREATMENT AND 



they do occur the cases are very few. A former 

 President of the Local Government Board asked 

 me some years ago : " Can you explain to 

 Dr. Milne, how it is that you have so few epide- 

 mics among the children under your care in 

 Dr. Barnardo's Homes, and how, when you do 

 have cases, they are so few in nunil>er. while 

 in our schools we have so many epidemics, - 

 these affecting sometimes one-half or even tl 

 fourths of the children in residence ? " 

 question drew my attention somewhat mark 

 to the undoubted fact which had prompted it, 

 for it suggested very clearly the difference in the 

 lines of treatment I was in the habit of follow 

 in comparison with the usual treatment pur 

 by others in similar circumstam 

 A family From my earliest days in practice 1 adoi 



the carbolic oil treatment, both in my treatment 

 of the children in the Homes and of my own 

 family. Shortly after I permanently settled in 

 East London one of my sons had an attack of 

 scarlet fever. Our accommodation was too limited 

 to permit of isolation. He was, however, care- 

 fully rubbed, and his tonsils swabbed with 10 per 

 cent, carbolic oil. It surprised me at the time 

 to discover that none of our other children took 

 the infection, although the experience of a 

 years showed that they were very susceptible to 

 the disease. 



