Advantages of Bacteriological Diagnosis as Instanced by the History of an Outbreak of Diphtheria in a Large School
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rooms, living-rooms, dormitories and playgrounds for the two sexes are quite distinct, the children only seeing each other in the dining-room?a large room in which they occupy different sides, with a broad gangway in the middle separating them?and in chapel. The food, including milk, is the same for both, and comes from the same source: an important fact, seeing that the diphtheria outbreak was confined to the girls altogether, and did not affect the boys. I have now been connected with the School for sixteen
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