Sin,—I have just read the letter on Eton from "Senior
Assistant-Master" in the Spectator of March 18th. I note that he says that in every boarding-house there is a suite of sick-rooms inspected by authority, and fitted for the use of patients and nurses in case of necessity. May I, through your columns, ask him why those suites of rooms are not brought into use now, when in many, if not in most, of the boarding-houses there are cases of mumps ? The boys at present suffering from that most infectious illness are simply left in their own rooms, with no carbolised sheets over the doors or other precautions to prevent the spread of infection, and liable to be visited, as I know they are, by any of their .school-friends who may chance to be passing while no one in authority is about. The Easter holidays are close at hand, and those boys may bring back the germs of disease into their own homes; or, if they catch mumps, they must neces- sarily lose a conSiderable portion of their holidays.—I am,
'Sir, &c., QuIs CIISTODIET P
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