8CAELH I 



logical Section Koyal Society of Med 



occasion John C. Thresh, Esq M I' 

 D.Sc., medical officer of health for Essex, corn- 

 mini lie following note on the paper to the 

 ; man of the Epidemiological meeting, and it 

 was read to the members : 



he treatment of scarlet fever patients by 



inunction with cu< oil has interested me 



for several years, and when I had charge of the 



small isolation hospital belonging to the Chelms- 



rurul di I used it in nearly all door 



I hiring one epidemic the hospital was overcrowded, 



ibout a dozen patients were accommodated in 



All the patients did extremely well. 

 formed a very pronounced opinion upon its 

 value whether it rendered a child non- 



infectious n: M or twelve days I was not 



able to determine. The popular opinion that a 

 child is infectious so long as it shows the slightest 

 signs of 'peeling 1 is so strong that I did not 

 dare to send out a child until desquamation had 

 practically cea> 



"Many medical officers to hospitals woul 

 believe, try the experiment, if they could feel 

 certain that they were not laying themselves 

 open to an action for damages if a return case 

 occurred. 



he enormous j" y and other advantages 



ii would accrue to the community, if Dr. 



