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On the thirteenth, two cases were reported from Maiden Hill;
they attended different schools, but neither school had had a case
of scarlet fever.
On the sixteenth, two cases were reported, one a school case,
the other a lad of sixteen living at home; as there was a dairy next
door to this case I visited the house at once, and found that the lad
had had no communication with any other case, but that he was in
the habit of going to the dairy next door and having a glass of milk
every morning from the vessel on the counter; a sample was taken
and sent to the Clinical Research Association for examination, who
reported that streptococci similar to the organism found by Prof.
Klein in the serum from the teats of the cows in the Hendon disease
was present. The wholesale vendor was at once communicated with
by telephone. The next day June the 17th the vendor came to the
Health Department at the Council Offices and was informed of all
the facts. He was most anxious to do all he could to mitigate the
further spread of the disease, and he volunteered to send mik from
another district and pasteurize it before dispatch; on the same day
I attended a consultation at Worcester Park, meeting Dr. Jones,
Assistant M.O.H. for the County, and Dr. Williamson, M.O.H.
for Epsom; we agreed that everything had been done locally, but