e no direct
communication between the attendants on the sick and the other inmates
of the house.

7. To insist on the attendants not wearing either silk or stuff dresses,
but dresses of some washable material; and on their changing their
garments as well as scrupulously washing themselves before mixing with
other inmates of the house, and especially with the children.

8. While in all respects obeying the directions of the doctor, to grease
the child all over twice in twenty-four hours with suet or lard, to
which a small quantity of carbolic acid has been added. This proceeding
both lessens the amount of peeling of the skin in a later stage of the
disease; lessens the contagiousness of the scales which are detached;
and, by promoting the healthy action of the skin, diminishes the risk of
subsequent disorder of the kidneys and consequent dropsy.

9. Even when the case has been of the slightest possible kind, to keep
the child always in bed for one-and-twenty days. This was a standing
rule at the Children's Hospital, and I am certain that its
non-observance will be followed three times out of four by dropsy and
kidney-disease.

10. When the disease is over, to destroy, if the parents' means at all
permit it, the clothes and bedding of the child. When this is not
practicable, to have everything exposed to the heat of superheated steam
in a Washington Lyons or other similar disinfector, and to have all
linen boiled as well as washed. Lastly, to have the ceiling whitewashed,
the paint cleaned, the paper stripped, and the room repapered, as well
as the floor washed and rewashed with strong carbolic soap.

These precautions are troublesome and costly, but disease is costlier
still; and who shall estimate the cost of death!

APPENDIX

_ON THE MENTAL AND MORAL FACULTIES IN CHILDHOOD, AND ON THE DISORDERS TO
WHICH THEY ARE LIABLE._

Any remarks on the ailments of children would be incomplete if no notice
were taken of the mental and moral peculiarities of early life.

For want of giving heed to them, not only are grave mistakes made in the
education of children, but in the management of their ailments, both by
doctors and by parents: much needless trouble is given to the doctors,
much needless distress to the child, much needless anxiety to the
parents.

The common mistake committed by those parents who do not make their
child an idol to fall down and worship, and thus turn him, to his own
misery and theirs,