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The spread of these diseases might be much
prevented if the members of infected families were
more careful in avoiding contact with non-infected
persons. It is very common for persons having a
child or children ill with scarlet fever to send the
children not attacked to school, the consequence is
that the children carry the poison in their clothes
and infect children who are more susceptible of the
disease than themselves. In a large number of
cases of scarlet fever which I have investigated
during the year for the purpose of ascertaining where
the disease has come from, I could trace it to no
other source than the school.
Number of Cases of Scarlatina traced to Schools
and other places.
National School, Marshall Street, 5
St. Luke's School, under the Church in
Berwick Street, 2
A School at No. 4, Upper Rupert Street, 1
Scotch School, Swallow Street, 2
St. Luke's School, Peter Street, 3
Dufour's Place School, 2
A School at 40 a, Rupert Street, 4
However carefully schools are ventilated, and
however large they are for the number of scholars,
nothing short of excluding the children of infected
families, can arrest this disease. At the same time
I believe that the less ventilated and the more
crowded schoolrooms are, the more likely are the