Let me most earnestly implore you to ponder well on the above important facts. If these remarks should be the means of saving only one child from death, or from broken health, my labour will not have been in vain. 226. _What means do you advise to purify a house, clothes, and furniture, from the contagion of Scarlet Fever_? Let every room in the house, together with its contents, and clothing and dresses that cannot be washed, be well fumigated with sulphur--taking care the while to close both windows and door; let every room be _lime-washed_ and then be white-washed; if the contagion have been virulent, let every bedroom be freshly papered (the walls having been previously stripped of the old paper and then lime-washed); let the bed, the holsters, the pillows, and the mattresses be cleansed and purified; let the blankets and coverlids be thoroughly washed, and then let them be exposed to the open air--if taken into a field so much the better; let the rooms be well scoured; let the windows, top and bottom, be thrown wide open; let the drains be carefully examined; let the pump water be scrutinised, to see that it be not contaminated by faecal matter, either from the water-closet, from the privy, from the pig-stye, or from the stable; let privies be emptied of their contents--_remember this is most important advice_--then put, into the empty places, either lime and powdered charcoal or carbolic acid, for it is a well ascertained fact that it is frequently impossible to rid a house of the infection of scarlet fever without adopting such a course. "In St George's, Southwark, the medical officer reports that scarlatina 'has raged fatally, almost exclusively where privy or drain, smells are to be perceived in the houses.'" [Footnote: _Quarterly Report of the Board of Health_ upon Sickness in the Metropolis.] Let the children, who have not had, or who do not appear to be sickening for scarlet fever, be sent away from home--if to a farm house so much the better. Indeed, leave no stone unturned, no means untried, to exterminate the disease from the house and from the neighbourhood. Remember the young are more prone to catch contagious diseases than adults; for "in the morn and liquid dew of youth Contagious blastments are most imminent."--_Shakspeare_. 227. _Have you any further observations to offer on the precautions to be taken against the spread of Scarlet Fever_?