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beds for the propagation of other things than
useful knowledge.
On one occasion recently three different
mothers each brought a child with mumps to my
surgery on the same day and at the same time;
each mother knew or thought that her child had
mumps, but the main object of each of them was
to obtain a certificate of the child's inability to
attend school rather than that of anxiety to
obtain advice and treatment for the little
sufferer. They were much astonished and inclined
to resent my suggestion that their duty towards
their neighbour, in my opinion, included some
consideration for the other children who might
be and who were in the surgery for other purposes
than to contract unnecessary diseases.
Typhoid Fever.—Three cases, and all of
them notified during the month of October, indeed
there has seldom been a case of enteric reported
here other than in one of the three autumn
months, and of these the large majority, when the
source of infection has been conclusively traced,
have been imported from a seaside town or from
abroad.
Of the three cases of last year, one was most
certainly contracted elsewhere, as it was that of
a visitor shortly after arrival; another was almost
as surely an imported case, and the third was
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