PERMIT me to make a few remarks on some notices of my paper on scarlet fever, published in your pages on the 17th of November last. Referring to my recommendation as to the destruction of the poison of scarlet fever, the Pall Mall Gazette says—“All this is very well in its way, and may be carried out by the upper and middle classes, among whom the mortality from scarlet fever is comparatively small; but the plan is quite out of the reach of poor creatures who have but one room, one bed, and one suit of clothing, which even at night takes the place of blankets.” My object in writing the paper was to show that scarlet fever might be averted by certain measures, and I left it to those who read it to devise the means of making them available for all. When the cattle disease broke out, an Act of Parliament was passed for the purpose of diverting it. The lives of human beings are surely of not less value even in a money point of view than those of cows and oxen, and I have the conviction that certain measures might be adopted by the Government that would reach even the “poor creatures” to whom the Pall Mall Gazette alludes. Even now there exist Acts of Parliament which, if at once put in force by boards of guardians, town councils, vestries, and other local authorities, would at once enable them to put down this disease. The inhabitants in “one room, one bed, and one suit of clothing,” are reached by medical men, and they might be empowered to remove the sick from the healthy, to destroy useless infected clothing, to have the infected linen washed, and generally to see that the disease is arrested. What can be done amongst the rich ought to be done amongst the poor, and expense ought not to be allowed to stand in the way of such merciful measures. It should be remembered that such outlay on the part of wealthy ratepayers would, in the end, repay them, as they catch this disease from its being fomented among the poor, and they would no longer be liable to these attacks when their less opulent neighbours were free from them.