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Diarrhceal Affections.—These cases should be very carefully watched,
especially as typhoid fever often begins in this way. If children suffer from this
ailment in the school, the attention of the schoolkeeper should be particularly
called to the regulation relating to his work of cleansing the w.c.'s.
(viii.) Teachers must be careful to keep accurately the registers with which
they have been supplied for the purpose of recording the absences of children,
either on account of their own suffering from infectious diseases, or because of
there being infectious diseases in their homes, and also in filling up the fly-leaf to
Form 101* which will be sent down with Form 9B of the Education Department.
In every case the precise description of the disease must be given, e.g., if a child is
suffering from fever, the kind of fever must be stated.
"Note.—The regulations contained in this Article relative to the exclusion of
children on account of infectious diseases apply also to Probationers, Candidates,
and Pupil Teachers."
FATALITY FROM THE NOTIFIABLE INFECTIOUS DISEASES.
Out of 2,276 cases of Infectious Diseases which were notified, 1,552, or 68·2
per cent. were removed to hospital for treatment, as against 64·6 per cent. so
treated in the preceding year.
Among the hospital cases 135 deaths occurred, or 8.7 per cent., while of the
724 cases treated at home 67, or 9·2 per cent. died.
Altogether 202 deaths occurred among the 2,276 notified cases.
Excluding Small Pox, from which disease there was a single notification and
a single death, the highest mortality occurred among the puerperal cases, of
which 6, or 37·5 per cent. died; while the lowest was from Scarlet Fever, from
which disease only 24 cases out of 1.074 resulted fatally, or 2·2 per cent.
Diphtheria and Membranous Croup was fatal in 167 per cent. of the
cases, of which 633 were notified, and 106 died.