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In the Girls' Department there had been no case up to the
time of the closure of class " H," but since then four cases have
been notified, viz. : —
October 25th, 2nd Standard.
„ 29th, 4th „
Noveinber 4th, 5th „
„ 14th, 2nd „
but one of these was found, after admission to hospital, not to be
suffering from Diphtheria.
After the closure of class " H " on the 26th October, and the
exclusion from school of the other children from the same houses,
the Head-mistress continued to furnish me with the names of
those absent on account of alleged illness from other classes.
From class " G," which adjoins class " H," there were several
absentees, and one of them I found to be suffering from
undoubted Diphtheria, although not notified, while two others,
though then showing no clinical signs of Diphtheria, had a history
of slight sore throat, and on bacteriological examination, the
Bacillus Diphtheria! was found. There were, however, no further
cases in the Infants' Department until November 4th, when a
child was notified, who had been excluded from school in consequenc
of her brother being in class " H," and on enquiry, 1 was
informed that he had been somewhat unwell, prior to the closure
of the class, and on bacteriological examination, the Diphtheria
Bacillus was isolated, so that, but for the closure of the classroom,
this child would have continued attending in apparently an
infective condition. Two days after this, a child in the next
house, attending school, who had played with these children was
also notified.
Since then, two cases have been notified in classes " B" and
" E," Infants' Department, on November Kith and on November
20th respectively, and one of these was probably infected by a
child in an adjacent house, with whom he played, so that although
the disease had continued prevalent in the district, there has,
since the closing of class " H," been no exceptional incidence
upon the children attending the school.