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She had not been taken to visit at houses containing children
during the month, neither had any children visited at 37,
C. Street.
(c) Reginald Charles G., aged 6 months, sickened on the same
day (April 3rd), as his sister Irene, namely, Monday, April
3rd, 1905, and was almost certainly infected from the same
source. His chances of contact with sources of infection
other than his elder sister, Winifred, were even more remote
than those of Irene.
(d) John H. G., aged 2 years, fell ill with Scarlet Fever on April
12th, 1905. Slept in the same room as the baby Reginald on
April 4th, the baby then being ill with Scarlet Fever. After
the 4th he was separated, and did not again come in contact
with Reginald or Irene, who were removed on the 6th and 5th
respectively. Thus he was last directly in contact with a
Scarlet Fever patient 8 days before he developed the disease.
He was doubtless exposed to indirect contact through his
mother and nurse on the 5th and 6th; therefore he was exposed
to sources of infection other than his sister, Winifred, and is
not an undoubted "return case."
(e) Henry G., aged 36 years, the father of these children, next
contracted the disease (April 15th), and was removed to
hospital on April 17th, where he died on April 24th.
(/) On or about April 20th, the housekeeper at this house commenced
to suffer from a feverish attack of an indefinite
character. She attended all the patients, and the children
slept in the same bed with her prior to their removal. She was
not seen by a doctor, and was not notified as a case of Scarlet
Fever.
(g) On Tuesday, May 2nd, a man named Charles H., aged 22, slept
at 37, C. Street, as a lodger, and he was attended to by the
housekeeper. On May 6th he commenced illness, and was
removed with Scarlet Fever on May 11th.
It should be added that the bouse had been disinfected after
each case, but there is collateral evidence to show that there
was in this family a large measure of carelessness, aud indeed
negligence, in respect of precautions against the spread of
infection.
2. Eleanor T., aged 3 years, 322, G. Buildings. Notified as Scarlet
Fever, August 29th, onset August 28th. Return case, sister,