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this opinion that since reading the report I have given
instructions that if possible the children should be
bathed the evening before leaving. Of course, it is
necessary to remove the child after the evening bath
away from the infected ward, but that has not always
been found practicable, and the bath, therefore, given
in the morning. In this case the child though free
from nasal discharge at the time of leaving, may have
taken cold after the warm bath and thus revived the
infection.
It has happened on a few occasions that discharge
from the ear has been so persistent as to become
chronic, and I have allowed the child to leave the
hospital, the parents being informed of the risk of
allowing the child to mix with others. I do not know
of any instance of others being infected by the returned
child. Undoubtedly it is very necessary that care
should be exercised by the parents on the return of
a child from the hospital. Dr. Simpson says with
regard to this: "I think it very desirable that every
parent or guardian, on the discharge of a child,
should be furnished with printed instructions as to not
allowing it to sleep with other children for at least a