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The number of cases of Notifiable Infectious Diseases removed to hospital is
each week of the year, were as stated in the attached table.
INFECTIOUS DISEASES AND EXCLUSION FROM SCHOOLS.
The code of regulations for day schools issued by the Lords of the Committee of
the Privy Council on Education, and known briefly as the Day School Code of the
Education Department, contains two important articles in reference to infectious
diseases, which are numbered respectively 88 and 101* (starred).
Article 88.—The managers must at once comply with any notice of the
Sanitary Authority of the district in which the school is situated, or any two
members thereof acting on the advice of the Medical Officer of Health,
requiring them for a specified time, with a view to preventing the spread of
disease, or any danger to health likely to arise from the condition of the
school, either to close the school or to exclude any scholars from attendance,
but after complying they may appeal to the Department if they consider the
notice to be unreasonable.
Article 101*—Where the Department are satisfied that by reason of a
notice of the Sanitary Authority under Article 88, or in any provision of an
Act of Parliament requiring the exclusion of certain children, or by reason of
the exclusion under medical advice of children from infected houses, the
average attendance has been seriously diminished, and that consequently a loss
of annual grant would—but for this Article—be incurred, the Department have
power to make a special grant, not exceeding the amount of such loss, in
addition to the ordinary grant.