Maryland medical journal . e well to take a throat culture from every suspiciouscase. Many scarlet fever outbreaks have been kept alive throughthe tendency of physicians to disregard sore throats which donot present a classical clinical picture. Among employes of concerns handling milk it is often advisableto resort to somewhat extreme measures to anticipate contactinfection. Corporations shipping milk to New York City usuallyland ready to co-operate with health officers in any effort toavoid the occurrence of communicable diseases in their plants,in view of the serious annoyance and expense w
Maryland medical journal . e well to take a throat culture from every suspiciouscase. Many scarlet fever outbreaks have been kept alive throughthe tendency of physicians to disregard sore throats which donot present a classical clinical picture. Among employes of concerns handling milk it is often advisableto resort to somewhat extreme measures to anticipate contactinfection. Corporations shipping milk to New York City usuallyland ready to co-operate with health officers in any effort toavoid the occurrence of communicable diseases in their plants,in view of the serious annoyance and expense which may therebybe av oided. During my term as health officer two children in thefamily of an employe of the local branch of a commercial milkplant had scarlet fever. A diagnosis was not made until the sec-ond child had become ill, and in the meantime the father had remained at work, without missing a day. Several men workingin the same room with him developed the disease. A careful AUGUST, IQI7 MARYLAND MEDICAL JOURNAL XX. S firte 05 Silk v| \
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