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often requested to visit and syringe the ear or nose. Parents
are always advised as to treatment, and children suspected to
be infectious are kept at home and from association with other
children.
The hospital superintendents forward the names of any
children discharged while still suffering from rhinorrhœa.
41. Home Isolation. 25 certificates of efficient home isolation
were given to enable men to continue their employment
in the Arsenal, and so obviate unnecessary removal to hospital,
compared with 11, 13, and 18, in the three preceding years.
In the Annual Report for 1911 a comparison was made
between home and hospital isolation, showing that, whereas
there were only 1.6 per cent. of failures in home isolation,
there were 4.6 per cent. in hospital isolation. Failure means
the occurrence of secondary cases attributed to the primary
case.
42. Other Sources of Infection. In addition to return cases,
a probable source of infection was found in 86 cases. In 36
cases infection was attributed to other inmates of the house.
Some of these were never notified, and had no distinct symptoms
of scarlet fever, but a history of sore throats made it
probable that they had had a slight attack of this disease.
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43. In 7 cases infection was attributed to friends and
neighbours, in 32 cases to school attendance, in 5 to the Fever
Hospital, and in 6 to other hospitals. In some of the latter
cases the illness followed operations for adenoids.
Schools. No schools were specially affected.