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essential that the Medical Officer of Health should be provided with
an adequate staff, and expressing the hope that the Council would
at on:e appoint any additional assistants (medical and other) that
might be required.
With regard to the arrangement that school attendance officers
should give speedy information of cases of illness to the Medical
Officers of Health, I can certainly say with regard to this Borough
that this arrangement was carried out very perfunctorily. The
bulk of the notices from the head-masters and mistresses have
always been received on the Saturday morning. It appears as if
they were saved up during the week and despatched on the Friday
afternoon. In support of this view, I give here a table showing
the number of notices received from the whole of the schools in
Hackney each day of the week during the months of March, April
and May of last year.—the period when the epidemic reached its
height and began to decline.