well-ordered hospital, with its staff of doctors and nurses, and all requisites for every stage of illness and convalescence. Another case that came under my notice in the course of the enquiry may be mentioned. The child was attended by a non-qualified practitioner; the parents, however, believing him to be a duly qualified medical man, for how should a poor ignorant Irish labourer know the difference between “Doctors”? “The child died at the end of the second week, and the existence of scarlet fever in the house became known to us only on the registration of the death: too late, in fact, for the mischief was done. The two rooms occupied by this family contained seven persons, viz., the parents and five children. Successively the father and two more children fell sick, and were removed to the hospital, where they are all doing well. The rooms and clothing were disinfected, and the mother and two remaining children were reluctantly compelled to leave the house; but no sooner had they done so than the elder child fell sick, and was sent to the hospital. The mother and her infant are at present well. The day following the burial of the deceased child another family of nine persons left the house. They have been traced, and two children found to be ill. They are tolerably well isolated, however, and seem likely to do well. I am trying, nevertheless, for the sake of the rest of the family, to have them removed. The lessons taught by this story are too obvious to need recapitulation; I will only observe, therefore, what the facts have strongly suggested to my own mind, viz., that among the many requirements in sanitary legislation, none is more needed than power to provide quarantine for the apparently healthy members of poor families in which infectious disease has broken out.” The other cases that have occurred up to the present time are too few, and otherwise offer nothing to call for special notice. All the fatal cases occurred in streets wholly occupied by the poorer classes. But, as I observed in my report,—