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connection with local schools ("N.R." columns) could not be distinguished in that manner.
A new system of co-operation was agreed to between the Medical Officers of Health of
Kensington, Marylebone, Hampstead, and Willesden (the districts whence children attend
local schools), and this Borough, whereby a more complete record of school incidence will be
secured, the cases being dealt with by class-rooms and not by the schools as a whole.

P.A.—Patient a scholar of the school. P.N.A.—Patient not a scholar.
N.R.—Patient resident beyond Borough: not known whether scholar or not.
The notices issued for the exclusion of children from school, numbered 2,430 last year,
as compared with 1,883 in 1908, and 2,238 in 1907. Owing to different practice as to
sending notices to re-admit after cases of the non-notified diseases, the numbers of exclusion
and re-admission notices with respect to those diseases do not balance. The complete figures
for the last two years (those for 1908 in italics), are given below:—
In connection Notices Issued.
with Exclusion. . Re-admission.
Notified diseases 1,070 (1,083) 1,070 (1,083)
Other diseases 1,360 (800) 447 (502)