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1893.
1894.
1895.
1896.
1897.
1898.
Poplar 12 58 82 49 33 34
Bromley 20 95 105 32 35 53
Totals 32 153 187 81 68 87
At the beginning of the year there were a large number of cases of
measles at the St. Gabriel's School, Bromley ; a certificate was given
advising exclusion of scholars from infected houses.
At the end of the year on account of the number of absences in
the Infants' department of the Upper North Street Board School,
either through the scholars suffering from measles or from the
complaint being in their homes, I communicated with the London
School Board, and their Medical Officer advised the School Management
Committee to close the Infants' department, which was accordingly
done and the schoolrooms disinfected. In the letter sent to the
School Board, attention was called to the want of adequate ventilation
to the class-rooms, and to the bad position of the infants' cloak rooms,
which are too near the class-rooms, and may cause infection to spread
(if there should be an unknown infectious disease) from the clothing
hanging up.
When reporting to the Sanitary Committee upon measles it was
pointed out that children who were excluded from a Board School
either suffering from or on account of any infectious disease were
deprived of their marks and the chance of winning medals, which is
manifestly a gross injustice. The Committee recommended that a
communication be sent to the School Board for London suggesting
that where children are excluded from school through illness or in
connection therewith, they should not be deprived of attendance
marks.
DIARRHA.
Fifty-seven deaths from diarrhoea with nine from outlying institutions
belonging to the Poplar parish, give a total of 66 deaths, 62
C