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for scarlet fever is generally adopt- effects 



will be far-reaching to an important and even 

 unsuspected extent, and this quite apart from 

 the merely professional aspect of the matter. A 

 friend of mine, for instance, who is an owner of 

 weekly property in London, lately told n 

 during the past five years he has had six or seven 

 sporadic outbreaks of scarlet fever in his houses. 

 in each instance he has had to pay a bill of costs 

 amounting to several pounds for disinfection and 

 cleaning. Such an expense will be ivn.lrred wholly 

 unnecessary when this plan is adopted. I never 

 order even the washing of a blanket or a night- 

 dress, far less the disinfection of a room, for merely 

 disinfecting purposes after scarlet fever. Wherever 

 a patient has been properly treated he ceases to be 

 a centre of infection ; no infective risk remains. A 

 child may sleep in the bed which the patient has 

 occupied. In this matter alone there would be a 

 v.-ry large saving to the public purse without 

 danger to the public health. That is only one of 

 many directions in which the marked benefit of the 

 treatment would be manifested. 



A neglected To the general subject of scarlet fever infection 

 I have given a good deal of thought and attention. 



hygiene. j t j s extremely difficult to trace the origin of some 



outbreaks. Every medical man thinks of milk at 



;e, but in many instances that have come under 



my observation the milk has been proved to be per- 



