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"Isolation Hospital the teacher and parent should be
"instructed to keep all children living in the same house
"away from school during the next two complete weeks,
"or even longer, unless these children have been cleared
"by negative result of bacteriological examination.
"This interval is desirable owing to the frequent
"occurrence of slight cases of diphtheria and "carrier"
"cases.
"(b) When the patient is treated at home no other
"child from the same house should attend school while
''the patient is infectious nor for four weeks afterwards."*
Enteric Fever.
It is especially gratifying, in view of the
following extract from a lecture by Dr. Thorne
Thorne, the late Chief Medical Officer of the
Local Government Board, to note that only two
cases of Enteric Fever were notified in the
district during the year, as compared with five
and ten in previous years.:—
"Enteric Fever has always been regarded
as standing foremost in this country among
those diseases which were classed by Sir John
Simon as forming the specified filth-infections,
and it has also been recognised as typical of that
class of disease which is most amenable to such
preventive action as is involved in the construction
of proper works of sewerage and drainage,
and in the adoption of adequate systems
of refuse disposal, and which tends to free
the air and soil from filth."
I received one specimen of blood from a
suspected case of Enteric Fever which by the
Widal test proved negative.
* Sometimes this period may be reduced to two weeks.