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Household 

 economy of 



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treatment. 



Other advan- 

 tages of 

 the new 

 treatment. 



nursing, together with a change of surroundings, 

 speedily reinvigorates a child. The expense in- 

 curred is small in comparison with the benefits 

 that accrue. For children who are more seri< i 

 indisposed a seaside convalescent home mi^ilit 

 be arranged, and it is in this preventive \v< 

 that isolation hospitals in the future ought to 

 find their finest sphere. It is by such kindly 

 forethought and treatment alone that v, 

 hope to invigorate thousands of our future men 

 and women the fathers and mothers of the 

 coming years. I am sure that to divert isolation 

 hospitals to this task would mean a national 

 benefit from the physical health point of view. 



When scarlet fever attacks a middle-class family 

 the mother is prevented from attending her own 

 child. That means extra nursing, extra food, 

 extra labour, and all these items, in an ordinary 

 family, are of very great consequence. Such 

 expenses would, by the adoption of this treat- 

 ment, be reduced to a minimum, and that re- 

 duction is worthy of great consideration. 



It must also be borne in mind that the father of 

 a family attacked by scarlet fever is, in many 

 instances, prevented from going about his ordinary 

 work so long as the illness continues. That means 

 a loss of wage or salary, and that just at a time 

 when household expenses are greatest. For many 

 years I have never asked a father whose children 



