Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: May 2, 2025
Scarlet fever would be no more ascribed to contagion, but to its right cause, the air-test standing at 'Foul. We should hear no longer of 'Mysterious Dispensations' and of 'Plague and Pestilence' being in 'God's hands, when, so far as we know, He has put them into our own." She urges much rubbing of the body, washing with warm water and soap.
Of the ruin wrought by bad air, she says: "Oh, the crowded national school, where so many children's epidemics have their origin, what a tale its air-test would tell! We should have parents saying, and saying rightly, 'I will not send my child to that school; the air-test stands at "horrid." And the dormitories of our great boarding-schools!
Scarlet fever would be no more ascribed to contagion, but to its right cause, the air-test standing at "Foul." We should hear no longer of "Mysterious Dispensations," and of "Plague and Pestilence," being "in God's hands," when, so far as we know, He has put them into our own. The little air-test would both betray the cause of these "mysterious pestilences," and call upon us to remedy it.
But if the tell-tale air-test were to exhibit in the morning, both to nurses and patients and to the superior officer going round, what the atmosphere has been during the night, I question if any greater security could be afforded against a recurrence of the misdemeanour.
And oh; the crowded national school! where so many children's epidemics have their origin, what a tale its air-test would tell! We should have parents saying, and saying rightly, "I will not send my child to that school, the air-test stands at 'Horrid." And the dormitories of our great boarding schools!
Word Of The Day
Others Looking