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ground floor, and is entered from the boys' staircase; the girls' school-room is
at the north end of the east wing, or east end of the main building on the first
floor, and is entered from off the girls' staircase by its own staircase; the
mixed school-room is under the girls, but is entered by its own door directly
from the north-east side of the main building. The dining hall in the west
wing is used by the boys and infant boys, the dining hall in the east wing is
used by the girls and the infant girls; jiart of the southern end of the girls
dining room is partitioned off and is occupied during meal times by some 30
or 40 of the elder girls. The playground of the boys classes is south of the
west, that of the girls south of the east wing, and that of the mixed classes
north east of the main building, close to the mixed school-room.
In the nursery buildings the youngest infants, boys and girls slept, the
other girl infants slept in the girls' dormitories, numbered 1 and 2, mixed with
girls somewhat older, and the other boy infants in the boys' dormitories, numbered
3 and 4, mixed with boys somewhat older. The infant boys dining with
older boys in the boys' dining hall, and the infant girls with older girls in the
girls' dining hall. The infants attended the mixed school and played together
in the mixed playground.
It is to be observed that in the order of increasing age the boys' dormitories
run B 4, 3, 2, and 1, whereas the girls' dormitories run G 1, 2, 4, and 3, the
oldest boys and girls being in the last numbered dormitories of each series.
It is further to be noted that each of the respective wings B 4 and 3, and
G 1 and 2, are on the first floor, and B 2 and 1, and G 4 and 3, are 011 the
second floor; and also that each pair of parallel wards on each floor, in
addition to communicating with the staircase at the end, have a door of
communication in the middle by which nurses can move from one ward to
the other without going into the staircase.
It is evident that the infection entered by the mixed school and play
ground and so reached the nursery and girls' dormitories G I and G 2, and
boys' dormitories B 3 and B 4.
The milk supply was carefully traced and examined, physically, chemically,
and tacteriolgically, without any result. Besides, all milk used in the Institution
is boiled before use, except about a quart which is kept specially for the
use of a few senior officers, and is not consumed by any of the children.
The following table gives succinctly a list of the cases and their histories:—