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The Utility of Isolation Hospitals in Diminishing the Spread of Scarlet Fever

Considered from an Epidemiological Standpoint

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 May 2009

Arthur Newsholme
Arthur Newsholme
Affiliation:
Medical Officer of Health for Brighton.
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There have not been wanting those who have alleged that isolation hospitals have failed to fulfil the object for which they were erected, inasmuch as scarlet fever has during the last few years been prevalent to an exceptional extent. Those who argue thus, are in favour of diminishing expenditure on the erection and maintenance of isolation hospitals, and consider that we must trust to “improved sanitation” for diminishing and possibly in the end annihilating infectious diseases.

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Research Article
Information
Journal of Hygiene , Volume 1 , Issue 1 , January 1901 , pp. 145 - 152
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1901

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