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April 25th, by order of the Medical Officer of Health,
rooms disinfected, cleansed, and ceilings lime-whited, and
drains tested (but without any result). Result of closure
was a diminution of the epidemic.
Priory Grove Board School, Infants' Department.—
Number on roll, 402, and of these 19 4 °\Q were absent on
account of Measles. The Infants' Department was closed
from April 5th to April 19th, by order of the Medical
Officer of Health, rooms disinfected, cleansed, and ceilings
lime-washed, and drains tested (but without any result).
Result of closure was a diminution of the epidemic.
Woodland Road Board School, Upper Norwood,
Infants' Department.—Number on roll, 286, and of these
24 5 °/Q were absent on account of Measles. The Infants'
Department was closed from June 14th to July 4th, by
order of the Medical Officer of Health, rooms disinfected,
cleansed, and ceilings lime-whited, and drains tested (but
without any result). Result of closure was a diminution
of the epidemic.
It is important that schools or classes, when closed for
Measles, should remain so a sufficiently long time, so that
the disease (as it then exists) may have time to burn itself
out. No shorter period than three weeks should be allowed,
owing to the average incubation, and duration, of this particular
disease being ten days and three weeks respectively.
In no instance was a school or class closed on account
of Whooping Cough, though this disease was undoubtedly
epidemic in Lambeth during the year, and many children
must have been absent from schools in consequence of
suffering from the disease themselves, or living in houses
wherein other children were so suffering. It seems unfortunate
that the School Board Authorities do not insist
upon a systematic notification to the Medical Officer of