[1345] Sandwith, Edin. Med. and Surg. Journ. XL. 249.
[1346] Aulsebrook, Lancet, 12 Nov. 1831, p. 217: cases of very malignant suddenly fatal scarlatina in infants and young persons up to the age of twenty-two. In the house of a canal boatman a son and two daughters, from 21 to 13 years, died in the course of two days after a very sudden and brief illness.
[1347] Rumsey, Trans. Prov. Med. Assoc. III. 194.
[1348] Hamilton, Edin. Med. Surg. Journ. XXXIX. 140.
[1349] Cowan, Journ. Statist. Soc. III.
[1350] Sidey, Stark and others in Edin. Med. and Surg. Journ. 1835-36. H. Kennedy, M.D., Account of the Epidemic of Scarlatina in Dublin from 1834 to 1842. Dublin, 1843.
[1351] The principal epidemics of scarlatina which have been inquired into by inspectors of the medical department since 1870 have been the following:
| In | 1870, | Camborne, Wing. |
| 1873, | Fleetwood-on-Wyre. | |
| 1874, | Hetton (Durham). | |
| 1877, | Massingham, Portsmouth. | |
| 1879, | Pontypool, Easington (Durham), Fallowfield (near Manchester), Yeadon. | |
| 1880, | Bedlington (near Morpeth), Stourbridge, Swindon, Castleford, Llanelly, Huntingdon, Barkingside (Orphans’ Home near Romford). | |
| 1881, | Durham, Halifax, Thame. | |
| 1882, | Bedwelty (Tredegar and Aberystruth), Potton. | |
| 1883, | Sutton in Ashfield, Thorne, Donington and Moulton (Spalding). | |
| 1885, | Sandal (near Wakefield). | |
| 1886, | Atherton, Hayfield, Hindley, Wombwell. | |
| 1889, | Spennymoor (Durham), Macclesfield, Faringdon, Brixham. |
[1352] William Ogle, M.D., in the 49th Report of the Registrar-General (for 1886), p. xiv.
[1353] See a paper, with Tables, on “Age, Sex and Season in relation to Scarlet Fever,” by Arthur Whitelegge, M.D. in Trans. Epidemid. Soc. N. S. VII. p. 153, for Nottingham and some other towns. A paper by Dr Ballard, “On the Prevalence and Fatality of Scarlatina as influenced by Sex, Age and Season,” which was written twenty years before but left unpublished, follows Whitelegge’s in the Trans. Epidem. Soc. N. S. VII. (1887-8).