Isolation after Diphtheria 1Read at the meeting of the Bristol Medico-Chirurgical Society on April 13, 1898.
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Whilst endeavouring to discover the cause of an outbreak of diphtheria in the girls' medical ward of the Children's hospital, it occurred to me that it was within the bounds of Possibility that the disease had been introduced by a patient, suffering from some other complaint, who had still active bacilli present in the throat or nose after some previous attack diphtheria. This opinion was subsequently supported by the facts that came out on a systematic examination of all the Cases in the ward and of cultures obtained during the apparent c?nvalescent stage of that disease. Before the introduction of the routine bacteriological examination by the Medical Officer of Health for the city of Bristol, ^ost of us were, I believe, content to allow our diphtheria Patients to go home or mix with other children at the end of a
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