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The boy taken with fever got worse until the attendant called in the Lieutenant, who in turn, called the Captain who runs the whole hospital. After a consultation they went out, and in half an hour our fellow-in-distress was taken out into one of the tents beside the side door. Scarlet fever. And he is the second who came in here as well as I feel and yet went out worse than he came in. And this boy I speak about was sweeping the