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Grove Hospital.
Case 12. "The patient, J. J., was detained forty-three
days in hospital, and was free from desquamation and all
mucous discharges before he left the hospital."
" The usual precautions were taken in discharging him."
Gore Farm Hospital.
Case 13. "F. Y. was as far as I could judge, free from
infection on her discharge, nor do I see from the facts referred
to any reason to suppose that the return case was directly
connected with the child in question."
Grove Hospital.
Case 14. " She had a discharge from both ears while in
hospital, which commenced from the right ear on the 13th,
and from the left ear on the 14th October."
" It had ceased before she was discharged, and must have
recurred again. She was discharged in the ordinary way,
and the usual precautions were observed."
The reports of the Medical Superintendents are of value,
as shewing the precautions adopted to prevent the recurrence of
cases, but are not, in my opinion, sufficiently strong as a whole
to remove the grave suspicion that further cases are contracted
from insufficiently recovered, discharged cases.
Personal Infection. Several groups and individual cases have
been very clearly traceable to personal infection.
On 5th April, a case of Scarlet Fever was notified from
— orville Road, and although at once removed to hospital,
four other members of the family were attacked, the first
case not having been recognised until it was in the highly
infective stage.