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should be taught in our Public Day Schools.
Thousands of lives are lost annually in this country
from absolute ignorance as to the proper feeding of
an infant, and too often when the Doctor is called in,
he finds disease has got a firm hold, and that it is
almost hopeless to strive for a real and lasting
alteration in the mothers' system of rearing. With
a declining birth rate and a "lowering of the physical
standard of health, this matter is a very important
one.
Something has been attempted and with some
measure of success, but the future mothers of our
race should, as girls, get some instruction in their
school days, and I am sure it would be found to bear
excellent fruit in due course.
Scarlet Fever.—There were but 22 cases of
this disease and no deaths, and 21 of them were
removed to the Isolation Hospital.
There have been a few "return cases" of Scarlet
Fever, and this naturally causes a certain amount of
misgiving, more especially in the families where it
occurs. This subject has received a considerable
amount of attention lately and many papers have
been read, discussions held, and various views put
forward, but it has been abundantly confirmed that
the occurrence of a certain proportion of "return
cases " from time to time is to be expected, and that
they are within the experience of all Isolation
Hospitals, although in these Institutions they are as
particular as it is possible to be with regard to the
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