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fact that Hospitals for preventing the spread of infection
are costly no one will deny, and their costliness
can be justified only on the grounds of their etficiency,
not only as regards the improved chances of recovery
given to a patient, but also upon the ground of
guarding the public from infection, which is the
theoretical basis upon which they are provided. It is
asserted also that return cases were not known, and
still do not occur, when the case is isolated at home.
To test the accuracy of these statements as applied to
Willesden, I have been at some pains in tabulating
the number of cases where more than one member of
a household has been attacked with Scarlet Fever
during the past year, and the results of this investigation
are given in the following tables :