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Disinfection is offered also in houses where deaths have
occurred from Tuberculosis of the lungs and Cancer.
Schools.—The segregation of children in schools at a
susceptible age is an important way in which infectious disease
may be spread; and the recognition at an early period if
symptoms should result in limiting the number.
The Education Authority is the Surrey County Council,
whose system of notifications, under the able directions of
Dr. T. Henry Jones, gives great assistance to our public health
work.
The Teachers in the schools have had sent them a memorandum,
issued by the County, giving the early symptoms
and signs of the infectious and contagious diseases likely to
occur among the scholars, so that suspicious cases may be at
once excluded. These names are notified to me, as are also
the names of suspected absentees, unless known to have been
otherwise notified.
As occasions arise, I visit the schools, and classes have
been examined by me for Diphtheria, Scarlet Fever and
Measles. Head Teachers are informed by us of the cases to
be excluded on account of disease, either in the scholars themselves,
or in their homes, and notices are again sent when they
are to be re-admitted.
The systematic medical inspection of school children, from
the point of view of limiting infection, is sure to be of service,
and it has already happened that Dr. Kidner detected an early
case of Diphtheria, which would, under ordinary circumstances,
have proved a source of further trouble. The information
given enabled me to make an examination of the
throats of the other children in the class.