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should be compulsory on the teachers to exclude all
children from infected houses for a definite term
varying for each disease, and dating from the performance
of the disinfection. The duration of such
exclusion should be decreed by the Education
partment. This is necessary owing to the fact that it
is possible for certain of the children to be in the
incubation stage of the disease when the disinfection
is done. Such children would be very likely to
spread the disease among the rest of the school.
School teachers should be required to inform the
Sanitary Authority of any special amount of illness
which may occur among their scholars. Half a
school may be away through sickness, if the disease
be not a notified one, but no information of such
fact comes to the Sanitary Authority. Where
the school receives scholars from two or more
districts, it is possible for a large amount of notifiable
sickness to prevail, of which fact the medical
officer of health has only a very partial information.
in the case of the infectious diseases which are
notified, the medical attendant should be required to
inform the medical officer of health of the recovery
of patients treated at home. For such information
a fee should be paid on the same scale as for notification.
No such certificate would be required for cases
removed to hospital or after death, and so the expense
under this head would be a small one, probably less
than one-fourth of the amount paid for notification.