Upon the appearance of the first symptoms the baby should be given a hot bath and be put to bed in a well ventilated room. The shades must be drawn, for the eyes are extremely sensitive to the glare of sunlight. Artificial light should be carefully shaded. The eyes must be bathed three or four times a day with warm boric acid solution—one-half teaspoonful of the boric acid to one pint of water. The bottle-fed baby will need to have his milk diluted. The baby who is eating solid food should be placed on a fluid diet. The bowels must be kept open. If the temperature is very high, an ice-cap or a wet compress may be applied to the head. A doctor should be asked to look the child over; but he generally prescribes nothing more than a simple cathartic and the remedies named above. The chief danger from measles, in little babies, is the complication of pneumonia. Therefore, the child should be kept in bed at least three days after the temperature has dropped to normal. Quarantine should last for two weeks after the temperature becomes normal. Scarlet fever is another contagious disease which can be carried by clothing or any article that has been in contact with a patient. The child exposed to this contagion may be taken ill within a few hours after coming in contact with it, or not for a week. The symptoms of scarlet fever are more violent than in measles. There is immediate loss of appetite, with vomiting, constipation, restlessness, sleeplessness, and headache. The breathing is hurried; the temperature runs up to 103°, 104°, or 105° F.; the throat is sore and shows inflammation; there is difficulty in swallowing; the tongue is coated in the center but red at the tip and edges. The rash, which appears within twenty-four hours on the neck and chest, spreads rapidly all over the body. It starts with small red points, which may be isolated or blended into a dull red flush. It lasts from five days to a week; then the skin peels off in fine flakes, which are seen especially on the palms of the hands and the soles of the feet. This peeling, which marks the most contagious stage of the disease, may last from two to six weeks, during which time nobody must be permitted to come in contact with the patient except the nurse and the doctor. The doctor only is qualified to raise the quarantine in the case of scarlet fever. As inflammation of the kidneys and of the ears is apt to follow scarlet fever, a physician should be in constant attendance. No mother should attempt to treat scarlet fever without the help of a doctor.