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behind the admission block, where about 50 children were
having their dinner in the open. He called out one child for
me to examine, and she was desquamating freely and was
evidently in about the third week of an attack of Scarlet
Fever. No treatment or isolation was carried out beyond
the eucalyptus inunction. No further case occurred among
the other children so far as I am aware. The age of the
affected child was 6 years, and the ages of the other children
ranged from about 3 to 10. One would thus have expected
some susceptible material amongst them. It is very curious
how, even when no treatment is carried out, a case of Scarlet
Fever will not give rise to others under apparently favourable
conditions, and yet at another time the reverse obtains.
Practically all the cases have been of a mild type, and
of the 267 cases, 186 were removed to the Hospital.

The total number of cases during this past year is lower
than the previous one, and, as will be seen, is exactly the
same as 1906, with the same number of deaths as that year.
Of these 11 deaths, 8 died in hospital and the other 3 were
nursed at home. Seven of the deaths belonged to the
Loxford Ward, and arose in connection with a case at one